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A single search interface for Ginan materials across the globe

The Ginan Library lets you track Ginan items held in various institutional and community collections across the globe. It facilitates searching of Ginan materials through a common interface using the following filters:

  • Availability: Useful for searching materials based on their online and/or physical availability. Unavailable items are categorized as citations.
  • Resource Type: Convenient for searching materials based on their formats, including books, lithographs, manuscripts, and audio recordings.
  • Material Type: Suitable for filtering materials by broad categories such as primary sources, academic sources, grey literature, etc.
  • Script: Helpful in locating materials by scripts such as Khojki, Gujarati, English, etc.
  • Year: Puts materials in broad categories based on their publication year.
  • Series: Groups historically significant Ginan publishers.

This website is maintained by Karim Tharani, librarian and tenured faculty at the University of Saskatchewan.