National Library is the largest library in India
The National Library of India is situated in Kolkata. It is the largest library in India. The National Library was established in 1948 bypassing the 'Imperial Library Act, 1948'. This library has the status of an institute of national importance.it is known as an ancient library in India
Some largest library in India
1. The National Library of India, Kolkata:
Its main movements are:
Acquiring and preserving every printed material of national importance (except one-day publications) and all manuscripts;
Collecting printed material related to the country no matter where it is published;
Providing bibliographic and documentation services in relation to both general and specific periodical and out-of-date material (this includes the responsibility of preparing current national bibliographies and earlier bibliographies on various aspects related to the country);
To play the role of a reference center giving complete and accurate information of all sources of bibliographic information and to participate in international bibliographic construction activities;
To play the role of a center for the international exchange of books and to take books within the country.
• It is the biggest library in the nation by volume and India's library of open record
• It was built up in the year 1836
• It houses 26, 41,615 books alongside different periodicals, maps, original copies and so forth
• It is spread in a region of 30-sections of land
• It was opened to open on February 1, 1953
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• It was begun as a UNESCO venture in the year 1951 by the Govt. of India
• It is the biggest Public Library in South Asia
• It has an accumulation of around 18 lakh books in Hindi, English, Urdu, Punjabi and other Indian Languages-practically all subjects are spoken to in its gathering
• The library is additionally the fourth beneficiary library under the arrangement of Delivery of Books and Newspaper (Public Libraries) Act 1954
3. Sarasvati Mahal Library (Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library, Tamil Nadu)
• It is housed inside the grounds of Thanjavur Palace and had begun as a regal library for the Nayak Kings of Thanjavur
• It has an uncommon gathering of palm leaf original copy in different provincial dialects of India
• It went under the ownership of the province of Tamil Nadu in the year 1918
• In the year 1998, the library introduced PCs to mechanize library exercises
• The library safeguards every one of the original copies as microfilms
• It was initiated on September 15, 2010
• The all-out developed territory of this brought together cooled library is 3.75 lakh sq. ft., which envelops ground and eight stories
• It has an accumulation of 5 lakh books
• It likewise has a Braille area to take into account the necessities of the visually impaired perusers
• It has an immense Conference Hall that can encourage 150 individuals
• It was set up on September 15, 1832, by Vice Roy Dom Manuel de Portugal e Castro as 'Publica Livraria.'
• The status of the library was raised to a national library on 15 February 1897
• It has more than 1.8 lakh books in various dialects
• The complete pre-freedom accumulation is more than 40,000 volumes
• It has a gathering of about 1.25 lakh books on different subjects
• It has uncommon Arabic original copies alongside papers of Parliament
• It was set up on May 1, 1950
• The all-out developed region of the Library is 80,025 sq. ft
• It has a solitary biggest Reading Room of 10,600 sq. ft. which can sit around 1100 perusers at once
• It has an amazing accumulation of uncommon books that incorporate books as old as those dated back to the sixteenth century
• Approximately 3,500 books are safeguarded in this valuable accumulation, which includes some significant titles, which are no longer in production
• It was built up in the year 1896
• It is one of the four National Depository Libraries, which get a duplicate all things considered, papers and periodicals distributed in India
• It fills in as a vaulted library for the UN
9. State Central Library, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
• It was built up in the year 1829 A.D
• It has an absolute accumulation of 3, 67,243 reports in various dialects, for example, English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit in different controls
• The library buys into 27 dailies and 215 diaries including remote diaries
• It has an amazing accumulation of 5, 01,861 books
• It additionally has an accumulation of around 17,000 uncommon and significant original copies going back to fifth and sixth hundreds of years
