Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya (BNM) of Itachuna, Hooghly district, West Bengal, India, is a NAAC accredited (B++ level scoring 84%) College affliated under Burdwan University. The college, established in 1950, has a rich library, which contains two thousand books and periodicals including Probashi, Bharatbarsha, Basumati, Udbodhan, The Calcutta Review, Sri krishnakirtan Kavya and early Indian prose from their first publication. In addition to these books and periodicals, the library is also having a rare collection of zoology specimen and zoology microscope slides collected and preserved by college faculties and students. Most of these books are in Bengali, but there are several books and periodicals are in other languages as well, including English and Hindi and Sanskrit. There are some rare manuscripts( almost 300 years old) in a personal collection of the Librarian, who has gladly committed to digitalise them. This page is intended as a site for discussion, and to provide information on ongoing and future projects organized as part of the collaboration between the BNM and Wikimedia. If you are interested in getting involved in Wikimedia events organised at the BNM, or in contributing to a Wikimedia community in West Bengal, you are welcome to contact the present team members Santanu Chandra or Sujay Chandra
From June 2015, the Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya launched the GLAM programme supported by Wikimedia India. This programme marks the start of what it is hoped will be an ongoing collaboration between the BNM and Wikimedia; the Residency aims to establish a self-sustaining and long-lasting relationship between the Library and the Wikimedia community, and to encourage the growth of the Wikimedia community in West Bengal more generally. The GLAM co-ordinators will act as a facilitator and catalyst over a period of coming few months, helping to open up access to BNM collections through Wikimedia projects where appropriate, and to work with Library staff to help incorporate Wikimedia's mission of a free and open knowledge base into future initiatives.
