Oriental Libraries: Of India and their Collections

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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 or 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of fact, the relevant information contained in the traditional sources of information, especially books was found to be outdated in most of the cases whereas the same available on the World Wide Web is too short to serve a meaningful purpose.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 is 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amjad Ali

Amjad Ali (Ph.D. in Library and Information Science) started his career from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. He was appointed founding Librarian of the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 1983, where he served as In-charge, Library Resource and Documentation Unit for over a decade. He was also appointed Academic Counselor with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for Bachelor of Library and Information Science course. 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. Dr. Amjad Ali has to his credit, four books and over 30 research papers on application of IT in academic libraries, which have been published in leading journals of Library and Information Science. Presently, he is a Council Member of the Indian Library Association and also the Chairman of its Sectional Committee on Oriental Libraries.