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Preservation and Access for
LECTURE 5 Cultural Resources: Patrimony

of the People, by the People, for
the People
Dr. James Nye

Dr. James H. Nye is currently working as Bibliographer for Southern
Asia, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, USA. Previously
he held the positions of Interim Director, South Asia Language Resource
Center and Director of South Asia Language and Area Center at
University of Chicago since 1998. He received his Ph.D under eminent
scholar V. Narayana Rao from University of Wisconsin-Madison in
South Asia Language and Literature.

An Indologist and bibliographer, he has mastered many languages
including Sansktri, Hindi, Urdu, French. His areas of interest cover
language studies, preservation of manuscripts, digitisation of
dictionaries, archival studies etc. He is associated with American
Oriental Society, Association for Asian Studies, Centre for South Asia
Libraries etc.

Some of his seminal works include ‘International Information
Exchange: New Configurations for Library Collaboration in South Asia
Studies’, ‘Toward a Sociology of South Asia Book Preservation’, ‘Textual
Information Retrieval and Analysis for Indology’, ‘Geospatial Data and
the Integration of Digital Resources for South Asian Studies’, ‘To Have
and to Hold: Conjoining Unequal Pairing for the Digital Humanities’, ‘A
Union Catalogue for South Asia’ and ‘A Khyber Pass: The Digital South
Asia Library’.