You're invited to celebrate a major advance in access to knowledge in India and America

--------------------------------------------------------------- Event: Access to Knowledge in India and America, June 14 in SF [wall] Please join us on June 14 at the Internet Archive for a special event celebrating our collections from India including the collected works of Mahatma Gandhi and much, much more. Our doors open at 6 p.m. with a reception and our program starts promptly at 7 p.m. [Get your free tickets here]( First, the Internet Archive is delighted to be [hosting a mirror of the Digital Library of India,]( a collection of 463,000 books in 50 languages. The collection was created in India under government auspices and features 45,000 books in Hindi, 33,000 in Sanskrit, 30,160 in Bengali, and much more. In addition to hosting a mirror of the collection, the Internet Archive is adding value to the collection by creating e-books, using optical character recognition, and improving the metadata and cataloging information. Second, we will feature the [Hind Swaraj collection,]( materials that are integral to the story of Indian independence. Here you can read all 100 volumes of the [Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi,]( as well as the complete writings of [Dr. B.R. Ambedkar]( and [Jawaharlal Nehru.]( Third, we will discuss additional collections of Indian materials, such as thousands of photographs from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and other sources which Public Resource [hosts on Flickr]( and a collection of all technical public safety India Standards hosted on [the Internet Archive]( and the [Public Resource]( site. What: [Access to Knowledge in India and America]( When: Wednesday, June 14th. Doors open at 6 p.m. for food and drinks, and program starts at 7 p.m. Where: Internet Archive Headquarters 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118 Universal access to knowledge is the goal of the Internet Archive. We are delighted to celebrate the immense contributions of India and the vital role both India and the United States--the world's largest democracies--play in make knowledge available to all. Please join us on June 14! --------------------------------------------------------------- [Support the Internet Archive]( --------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:accounts@archive.org You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the Internet Archive newsletter Internet Archive, 300 Funston St. San Francisco, CA [unsubscribe from this list]( [RelevantBlue Privacy Policy](