are printed books others are palm leaves and handwritten manuscripts and we have converted it to unicode the metadata indexing and cataloguing were contracted to young scholars in israel poland and germany all former students of oberlin who studied malayalam and manuscriptology all the materials have been labelled with a few formal keywords which will allow you to quickly gain an overview of the different literary genres says oberlinmore than 800 prints lithographed works essays and manuscripts have been digitized and indexed on the portal we have included all 19th century works in south indian languages that are at the university library even if they were not strictly speaking from the gundert legacy english and german material written by gundert and his closest colleagues were also added says oberlin