LIBRARIES

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF INDIA

The National Library of India is situated in Kolkata was established in 1836 as Calcutta Public Library. In 1903 the Library was opened for public by Lord Curzon. After the independence of the country, in 1948 the Government of India passed an Act and changed its name as National Library of India. On 1st February 1953 the library was formally inaugurated by then Education Minister Moulana Abul Kalam Azad.
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 Director General: Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty
Address: Belvedere Rd, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700027

Phone: 033 2479 2968

Website:  http://www.nationallibrary.gov.in/
  

DELHI PUBLIC LIBRARY

            Delhi Public Library is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Culture and governed by Delhi Library Board. Delhi Public Library was started as a UNESCO project in the year 1951 by the Government of India. It was inaugurated by then Prime Minister of India  Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.It is a  premier Public Library System in Delhi.

Address: Culture Center, Vinoba Puri, New Delhi, Delhi 110024

Website:  http://dpl.gov.in/

CONNEMARA PUBLIC LIBRARY

Connemara Public Library Established in 1896. It is one of the four National Depository Libraries in India. It serves as a depository library for the United Nations also. The library has a vast collection of books, periodicals, reference sources,video collection, and Braille Library. The library is Egmore, in the capital city of southern state of Tamilnadu.

Address: Pantheon Rd, Egmore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, PIN-600008
Library timing: 
Monday to Saturday: 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM, Sunday: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Website:  http://www.connemarapubliclibrarychennai.com/
 OPAC: http://connemara.tnopac.gov.in/

ASIATIC SOCIETY LIBRARY

Asiatic Society Library, Mumbai, situated at Horniman Circle enriched with books and periodicals, ancient manuscripts, painted folios, coins, artifacts, maps and prints which depicts the culture of the continent. The society has its tradition from 19^th century during colonial period. It grown in to a treasure of knowledge in Indology and now it is one of the four depository libraries in the country.

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 website: http://asiaticsociety.org.in/

 

 

KERALA STATE CENTRAL LIBRARY

The Kerala State Central Library (Trivandrum public Library) is one of the oldest libraries in the country established in the year 1829. The library is situated in the heart of Thiruvananthapuram city on the side of NH 66 at Palayam. The library has a collection of more than 3 lakhs books, hundreds of periodicals and magazines, news papers, government gussets,etc. It has a digital collection in searchable format of 709 books, in English and Malayalam. Apart form this a separate collection of Children's'
 collection and British Library collection has housed here. Now SCL is a minor department of Government of Kerala.

Address: Kerala State Central Library, Palayam, 
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala PIN-695033,
 Phone No. 0471 232 2895                                                                
website http://www.statelibrary.kerala.gov.in/

 

 

KHUDA BAKSHA ORIENTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY

Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library is located in Patna, Bihar. The library has a unique repository of about 21,000 Oriental manuscripts and 2,50,000 printed books. It was opened for public on 5^th October 1891 by Khuda Baksh.The Government of India declared the Library as an Institution of National Importance by an act of Parliament in 1969. The Library is now fully funded by the Ministry of Culture. 
                                                                                                                                                   

Address: Beside PMCH, Ashok Rajpath Road, Patna, Bihar 800004

Phone: 093037 77667

 Website: http://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/  

                                                                                                                                             

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