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BELOW IS FOR THE GENERAL CATEGORIES OF RESOURCES THAT DSAL CONTAINS --><br> <!-- we did this with emacs --> <table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="650" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td class="strong" width="50%" align="left" valign="top"> <a href="reference/">Reference Resources</a> <!-- SMALL TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> </td> <td width="90%" valign="top"> Scholarly reference books and a link to full text dictionaries at Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA).</td> </tr></table><!-- END SMALL TABLE --> </td> <td class="strong" width="50%" align="left" valign="top"> <a href="bibliographic/">Bibliographies and Union Lists</a> <!-- SMALL TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> </td> <td width="90%" valign="top">Electronic catalogs and finding aids for dispersed resources and collections.</td> </tr></table><!-- END SMALL TABLE --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="strong" width="50%" valign="top" align="left"> <a href="images/">Images</a> <!-- SMALL TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> </td> <td width="90%" valign="top"> Photographs are arranged in databases organized by the original collections.</td> </tr></table><!-- END SMALL TABLE --> </td> <td class="strong" width="50%" valign="top" align="left"> <a href="indexes/">Indexes</a> <!-- SMALL TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> </td> <td width="90%" valign="top">Includes periodical indexes and document delivery mechanisms.</td> </tr></table><!-- END SMALL TABLE --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="strong" width="50%" valign="top" align="left"> <a href="maps/">Maps</a> <!-- SMALL TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> </td> <td width="90%" valign="top"> Catalogs of maps and maps themselves, ranging from historical to topographic.</td> </tr></table><!-- END SMALL TABLE --> </td> <td class="strong" width="50%" valign="top" align="left"> <a href="books/">Books and Journals</a> <!-- SMALL TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> </td> <td width="90%" valign="top"> This section includes pedagogical books, general scholarly titles, journals and newspapers. </td> </tr></table><!-- END SMALL TABLE --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="strong" width="50%" valign="top" align="left"> <a href="statistics/">Statistics</a> <!-- SMALL TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> </td> <td width="90%" valign="top"> Statistical information from the colonial period through the present, available in a variety of formats.</td> </tr></table><!-- END SMALL TABLE --> </td> 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