There is a dire need to pass on the wealth of our literary works to the next generations, said Mannam Venkata Rayudu of Bengaluru-based Manasu Foundation.
Speaking at a seminar on “Digital Libraries and their Importance” organised by Fr. Gordon Library of Andhra Loyola College (ALC) on September 22 (Friday), Mr. Rayudu said through these works, “We would be passing down knowledge and values which can help the next generations to maintain a sense of cultural identity’‘.
He said the Manasu Foundation had been engaged in digitisation and re-editing of many important Telugu literary works. It collected books from Telugu language-lovers, scanned them and preserved them for posterity in digital book form, which would be useful to the future generations. The foundation had so far scanned and saved 1.4 crore pages and another 2 crore pages were ready for the scanning process, he informed.
