From The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Apr 2009, Vol. 16, No. 6 (296)
Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US.
The Digital South Asia Library is pleased to announce the launch ofthe Libraries & Archives in South Asia (LASA) wiki, a collaborativeuser-driven effort to compile a guide to South Asian libraries andarchives for academics and researchers in the humanities and socialsciences. The LASA wiki contains detailed information about librariesand archives in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It aims to become a full-fledgedportal to research in South Asia, for the scholarly community and bythe scholarly community.Any entry in the wiki can be improved upon with new or updatedinformation. A typical entry contains location, contact information,basic access and collection information and a link to theinstitution's website when it is available. More detailedinformation, including maps, photographs, links to online catalogs,etc. are provided when available. The LASA wiki was created by Samip Mallick, AssistantBibliographer for Southern Asia at the University of Chicago Library.- jn."
URL http://dsal.uchicago.edu/lasa/
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