AP Govt launches "E-Grandhalaya" initiative

Hyderabad, Apr 25 (UNI) The Andhra Pradesh Government in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre today launched the ''E-Grandhalaya'', a user-friendly IT solution to computerise 1800 public libraries in the State in phases.' Launching the initiative to connect the libraries in the State with a collection of over two crore books, State Libraries Minister N Rajyalakshmi said this would be a boon to researchers, who could get to know the book of his choice from any of the public libraries in the state with just a click of a mouse.

To start with, the State Central Library here, regional libraries and District Libraries would be covered under the initiative, State Director of Public Libraries said.

Informing that the NIC provided the relavant software as also training free of cost, NIC Deputy Director General C S R Prabhu wanted all States to benefit out of the NIC's Library Management initiative.

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