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Oriental Libraries of India and Their Collections

Author: Amjad Ali

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ISBN 8170004160
Year of Publication 2004
Binding HardBound
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Language English
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This book presents information about the premier oriental libraries of India and brings together details about their collections irrespective of their locations of languages. Many sources including catalogues in English, Urdu and Hindi and a number of internet websites have been consulted for this work. Printed materials as well as manuscripts in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Tibetan, Urdu, Persian, Arabic and English have been covered as part of the collections of libraries. As a matter of fact, the relevant information contained in the traditional sources of information, especially books was found to be outdated in most of the cases whereas the same available on the World Wide Web is too short to serve a meaningful purpose. Therefore an attempt has been made to collect all the relevant material from every available source and present it in a way that the gap between the old and the new is bridged and a comprehensive picture of oriental libraries in presented. The book will be specially useful for researchers in oriental disciplines and history, students of library and information science, library professionals and all those persons who have interest in rare and invaluable manuscripts and books available within the country.

1. The Asiatic Society Library, Kolkata
2. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
3. The Department of Manuscriptology Library, Indian Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai
4. Government Oriental Library of Manuscripts, Chennai
5. Saraswati Mahal Library, Tanjavure
6. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna
7. Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim
8. Hakim Mohammad Said Central Library, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
9. Dr. Zakir Hussain Library, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
10. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamshala
11. National Library of India, Kolkata
12. Osmania University Library, Hyderabad
13. Rampur Raza Library, Rampur
14. Salar Jung Museum and Library, Hyderabad
15. Survey of Oriental Collections in India
16. Index

Dr. Amjad Ali (Ph. D. in Library and Information Science) started his service carer from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. A year later, he joined the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as Librarian ( in charge of the Library Resource and Documentation Unit). He was also engaged as Academic Counselor with IGNOU. In 1993, he joined Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Deputy Librarian where he still continues. In the meanwhile, he has been on a foreign assignment as Information Specialist with King abdulaziz City for science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was also selected as Librarian (on panel ) for the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Presently, he is a Council Member of the India Library Association. Dr. Amjad Ali has published 20 books and a number of research papers. He is a recognized Guide for M. Phil and Ph. D. in Library and Information Science. The other books authored by him and brought out by the Leading publishers of the countryu include:

1. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library and Information Science (3vols.)
2. Information Technology and Libraries (Library and Paperback editions)
3. Reference Service and the Digital Sources of Information (Library and Paperbackeditions)
4. Learning in the Information Age
5. Infomedia in Higher Education
6. Oriental libraries of India and their Collections
7. Glossary of Library and Information Science (2vols)
8. Oriental Manuscripts Worldwide
9. Digital Libraries in the Making
10. Encyclopedia of Information Technology (2vols).
11. Digital Libraries in Higher Education
12. Working with the News Media
13. Libraries and librarians of the World
14. Builders of the Global Village

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