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The residence of the Viceroy in the British era, now hosts one of the most impressive collection of vintage books and manuscripts in the world. In the post independence period, it is one of the best public libraries in the world. National Library, Calcutta: Date: 27 November 2007, 10:37:16: Source: Flickr: Author: Avrajyoti Mitra: Permission ...
Echoes from Belvedere: Home of National Library, Kolkata (2004) [20] Hicky and his Gazette (2001) The Mango in Indian Life and Culture (1995) Calcutta Tercentenary Bibliography Volumes 1 & 2 (1993) British Beginnings in Bengal, 1600-1660 (1991) James Prinsep: Life and Work - Volume 1 (1991) Job Charnock: The Founder of Calcutta: an Anthology (1990)
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.
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. [1]
The British National Bibliography (BNB) was established at the British Museum in 1949 [1] to publish a list of the books, journals and serials that are published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. [2] It also includes information on forthcoming titles. [3] This is the single most comprehensive listing of UK titles.
When the capital moved from Kolkata to Delhi in 1911, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, who had hitherto resided in Belvedere House, was upgraded to a full governor and transferred to Government House. [11] National Library of India, Kolkata, has been housed in Belvedere House since 1948.
A national library is that library which has the duty of collecting and preserving the literature of the nation within and outside the country. Thus, national libraries are those libraries whose community is the nation at large. Examples include the British Library in London, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. [2] [3]
Fort William College (also known as the College of Fort William) was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William complex in Calcutta. Wellesley started the Fort William College with the original intention that it ...