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 Last updated on : 26.04.2012

Disclosure under Section 4 (i)(b)(vi) of RTI Act, 2005

 

KHUDA BAKHSH ORIENTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, PATNA

 

A statements of the categories of documents

 
1. Record Management:
    Collection of Books and Manuscripts of the library are as follows:
 
    A. Manuscripts Collection
    Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish & Pashtu Manuscripts  :

   21,136

 
   
    B. Printed Book Collections
  Sl. No.   Categories   Numbers  
  01.   English Books : 73,155  
  02.   Urdu Books : 99,239  
  03.   Arabic Books : 32,180  
  04.   Persian Books : 23,628  
  05.   Hindi Books : 7,127  
  06.   German Books : 990  
  07.   French Books : 926  
  08.   Punjabi Books : 18  
  09.   Russian Books : 03  
  10.   Japanese Books : 02  
  11.   Others : 28  
  12.   Books in ITU Collection (Urdu, Arabic & Persian) : 6213  
  13.   Periodicals (English, Urdu, Arabic & Persian) : 39395  
      Total  

:

2,82,904  
 
    C. Collection of non-books material
  01.   Microfilms of Manuscripts : 2195  
  02.   Microfiche : 752  
  03.   Slides : 182  
  04.   Audio Cassettes : 2041  
  05.   Video Cassettes : 1051  
 
    2. Catalogue of printed books:
  (i) Catalogue of printed books available on the library website under Catalogue Search.
 
   3. Online Hand lists and Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts:
  (i) Hand lists of Arabic, Persian and Urdu Manuscripts are available on the library website under the Hand Lists.
  (ii)

Descriptive Catalogue of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts are available in 43 volumes on library website under Manuscript Catalogue.

 
 
    4. Online Catalogue of Library's Publications:
  (i) List of library's publications are available on the library website under Publications.
  (ii) List of library's Quarterly journals are available on the library website.