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The eGranary Digital Library provides over 2.5 million digital resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of copying Web sites and delivering them to intranet Web servers inside partner institutions in ‘developing’ countries, this digital library delivers educational materials for instant access over local area networks.

Says the project proponents: “For schools that are spending enormous amounts of money for their slow and unreliable internet connections, the eGranary Digital Library slips seamlessly into the network and delivers its Web pages up to 5,000 times faster. At the same time, such schools can save tens of thousands of dollars in bandwidth costs every year. For those schools, clinics, and libraries WITHOUT an Internet connection, the eGranary Digital Library is a phenomenon!”

It is working in more than 60 institutions in Africa, Bangladesh and
Haiti, and the eGranary Digital Library says it provides lightning fast access to a wide variety of educational materials including video, audio, books, journals, and Web sites, even where no Internet access exists.
eGranary Digital Library include: U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Columbia University, Cornell University, MIT’s OpenCourseware, UNESCO, Wikipedia, the Virtual Hospital, World Bank and WHO.

eGranary Project is a what schools in India need, this will work beautifully as a digital library and this can be used without much changes to schools existing computer infrastructure and will allow students to garner information other than they find in their textbooks.

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