Friday, November 23, 2018

Number of Books in Libraries of Universities of India




It is an interesting question.

How many books are there in libraries of universities of India?
Why?
Because there are universities in USA with more than one crore books (10 million).

https://www.infoplease.com/arts-entertainment/literature-and-books/largest-libraries-us

ALA, August 2005 information

Harvard University: 15,181,349
Yale University:       11,114,308


Mumbai University Library

Today (23 November 2018), I came to know that Mumbai University library has around 8 lakh books.

Today it has a stock of nearly 8 lakhs seventy thousand books, periodicals and other material.

Books : 6,99,321

Theses & dessertation: 20,000

Periodicals: 12,000

Manuscripts: 15,000

Microforms: 2,000

http://archive.mu.ac.in/service_library.html


Banaras Hindu University Library

The Banaras Hindu University Library system, the largest University Library System in the country.

The Banaras Hindu University Library System consists of Central Library at apex and 3 Institute Libraries, 8 Faculty Libraries, 25 Departmental Libraries, with a total collection of over 13 lakh volumes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayaji_Rao_Gaekwad_Library


This shows Indian University Libraries are no match for libraries of USA universities. We need to increase our investment in libraries.



MIT Ad Hoc Task Force Report  on the Future of Libraries - 2015

https://v3.pubpub.org/pub/future-of-libraries




Books in IIT Bombay Library



 Collection Total as on 31 March 2015
Books, Theses, CDs & Videos 2,40,101
TLL & BC (Book Bank) Collection 12,084
Bound Volumes of Journals 1,18,925
Reports, Pamphlets, Standards 67,677
Photocopies 4,417
Journals (Print, Online) 40,000+


MIT has 13 lakhs collection

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