Udupi Gets A Digital Library Service: First Of Its Kind In The Country

January 31: The Digital Library Service, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, was inaugurated in Deputy Commissioner G Jagadheesha in Udupi on January 30, Thursday.

Department of Public Libraries Director Dr Satishkumar S Hosamani, said that 79,000 digital portals, 5,000 periodicals in English and Kannada languages, video clippings, text books of NCERT and CBSE from class 1 to class 12th were now accessible online free of charge.
The digital service will be available in 272 libraries, including 176 libraries in taluks, across the state. The next phase of digitalisation will cover slum libraries, children’s community centers, travelling libraries and rural libraries.
DC Jagadheesha said that the readers could access books through the new facility as the books and other journals will be available in the digital format.