Comments on: Digitising the School Magazines

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:11:55 +0000

[...] for download? Students of Loyola, why not publish the LENS on the internet? Why not sell a CD of the school magazines? Why [...]

By: Toby Joseph S.J.

Toby Joseph S.J. — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:25:01 +0000

Keep going guys. Money comes in when the will is strong. My wishes to all those who would be involved physically and morally.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:53:26 +0000

Syam, yes, this is best done professionally. We’ll have to pay such companies.

Aju, I know companies in Delhi that will do this commercially. I think we should do this professionally, rather than a few Loyolites volunteering to do it cottage-industry style. After scanning, we need the magazine text to be searchable. So, that’ll take a few days and more money. To me, it appears that money is the barrier.

By: Aju

Aju — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:40:24 +0000

Ashok,
I work in a place where we are digitizing books all the time. I doubt I can get them to try and digitize these books for us, but I will certainly try.

In any case, there are companies who will do digitisation commerically, or so I’ve heard. This is also something that can be undertaken with a scanner and some software, pirated copies of which are available everywhere. Once we get hold of the forty-odd magazines, with the right hardware and software, digitization can be completed cottage-indutry-style in two or three days with two people working.

Now. Volunteers?

By: Syam Nath S

Syam Nath S — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:45:33 +0000

Hmm digitising means you give the stuff to a company and pay them?

By: Ashok

Ashok — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:59:32 +0000

Jiby, yes, if your classmate can lend the magazines, that would be a significant help. Will contact you when the initiative gathers steam. I am waiting for the money. As a first step, if one or two batches can donate Rs 30,000 for digitising magazines from 1980-2007, that would be nice.

By: Jiby

Jiby — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:45:28 +0000

I would go with Model 1. There is no better way to preserve our school’s history and to know our past and present than read the articles students, teachers and alumni have written in our school magazine. A classmate of mine has every issue of The Loyolite from 1985 to 1998. Let me know if you would need to borrow those for this initiative.

I regret not saving the mags i had…but i still remember every good article that came in The Loyolite during those years, it would be just awesome to read the writeups before and after the time i passed out of school.