[INDOLOGY] MSS in Sarasvati Bhavan Library

[Smith,Travis LaMar]

Dear Martin and All,

I would gladly sign such a petition: I've also found SBL very difficult to work with directly, and I eventually gave up trying. But to clarify one point in Martin's original query: while you do need written permission from SBL (as with any other library) to procure copies of their digitized/microfilmed manuscripts, you do not need their permission to read and review them onsite at IGNCA in Delhi. This is of course helpful in determining which MSS copies - and at which librarie - are worth mounting a chase for. 

All best,
Travis
--
Travis L. Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
University of Florida


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From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of Martin Gansten [martin.gansten at pbhome.se]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 8:55 AM
To: Dominik Wujastyk
Cc: Indology
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] MSS in Sarasvati Bhavan Library

Perhaps obviously, I'd be all for such an initiative...

Martin

Dominik Wujastyk skrev 2014-02-04 17:05:
> Nowadays, online tools make it possible to compile an international
> petition.  See, e.g., change.org <http://change.org>, etc. What do we
> think as a community about raising a petition to the minister of culture
> (see their National Mission on Libraries <http://www.nmlindia.nic.in/>)
> about the inaccessibility of MSS at the SBL and the damage done thereby
> to national and international scholarship on the history of Indian culture?
>
> Best,
> Dominik


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