Dear friends and colleagues,

You will remember some postings about 'saving' significant libraries over the last couple of years. The idea has been, amongst others, to support 'real object' libraries (as opposed to virtual ones), and to avoid the dispersion of precious collections. 

Finally, a number of collections have been brought together in a very special library, the BIBLIOTECA INDIA and ASIA, in a very special place, the University of Malaga, comprising some 10,000 volumes - this has been a wonderful adventure, only possible thanks to the very active involvement of Prof. Fernando Wulff of the same University, who has coordinated in first person the gathering, organising, housing (in a beautiful place) and making available to the the public of the very substantial, specialised personal libraries of Profs Michel Angot, Johannes Bronkhorst and Madhav Deshpande, with important contributions also from John D. Smith. 

Apart from Prof. Wulff and his team, this has also been possible thanks to the active involvement of Michel Angot's wife (Mme Michelle Angot) and of a number of Italian and French sanskrit-loving volunteers - all of whom have done a lot of work over several years in order to bring this project to life and fruition.

A presentation and formal inauguration of the BIBLIOTECA INDIA and ASIA will take place next Friday 23 October in Malaga from 6pm (speakers' presentations followed by a concert) - please see the program and posters attached. Should you or any of your students or other interested parties be in the area, you/they would of course be most welcome to attend. Online participation is also possible, see links at bottom of the inauguration program (ie the Programa NB: the streaming links are correct, but will only work once the event takes place).

The donated books are now in their new home: many have already been catalogued and the rest will soon be. Given the location and the facility, this must be a great place to keep in mind should someone working in our area be looking for a place to do research and writing - I for one am certainly thinking along these lines!

Warmest congratulations to Prof. Wulff, his team, Mme Angot and all the valiant volunteers, amongst whom I would like to explicitly mention Gloriana, Primo, Antonio and Yvon, with thanks to anyone else who contributed without me being aware of it. 

Greetings and cordial best wishes to you all!

Elizabeth De Michelis, PhD

(formerly of Cambridge and Oxford Universities, UK)