Baroness Tessa Blackstone, the chairman of the British Library, is in Calcutta to speak with various stakeholders in a massive British Library project to digitise its collections of South-Asian language printed books dating from 1714 to 1914. Digitisation will not only preserve the rare and priceless — and often brittle — books for posterity but … Continue reading Baroness bats for Bengali books – Life peer on digitisation drive