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The National Library of India is a library located in the Belvedere Estate, Alipore, Kolkata, India. [ 3] It is India's largest library by volume and public record. [ 4][ 5][ 6] The National Library is under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The library is designated to collect, disseminate and preserve printed material produced within ...
S. R. Ranganathan. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan[ 1] ( listen ⓘ 9 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was a librarian and mathematician from India. [ 2] His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification.
The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
Known for. ability to speak in 34 languages. Harinath De (12 August 1877— 30 August 1911) was an Indian linguist, polyglot, Indologist and an academician, who later became the first Indian librarian of the National Library of India (then Imperial Library) from 1907 to 1911. [ 2] In a life span of thirty four years, he learned 34 languages.
B. S. Kesavan. Bellary Shamanna Kesavan (10 May 1909 – 16 February 2000) was the first National Librarian of independent India (1947–1962). [1] [2] He is also known as Father of Indian National Bibliography as it was first brought out in his leadership on 15 August 1958. Later, he became the first Director of the Indian National Scientific ...
Contents. Connemara Public Library. The Connemara Public Library at Egmore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the four National Depository Libraries which receive a copy of all books, newspapers and periodicals published in India. Established in 1896, the library is a repository of century-old publications, wherein lie some of the most ...
Website. www .pmsangrahalaya .gov .in. The Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society previously known as the Nehru Museum and Library Society is a museum and library in New Delhi, India, which aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. Housed within the Teen Murti House complex, it is an autonomous ...
Digital Library of India. Digital Library of India, initially hosted by Indian Institute of Science, CDAC, Noida, IIIT-Hyderabad during 2000s working in partnership with the Million Book Project, provides free access to many books in English and Indian languages. [ 1] The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for ...