Library Movement and Library Development in West Bengal and Sikkim : Part. I and II
Contents: Section-I: West Bengal. Part. I. A. Preliminaries. 1. The state. 2. The Bengali Language. 3. Bengali Literature. 4. Science Literature in Bengali. 5. Science Periodicals in Bengali. 6. Bibliographical control of Bengali Literature. B. History of Printing and Publishing. 7. Printing in Bengal. 8. Early Educational Publishing in Bengal. 9. Newspapers and Magazines. 10. Contribution of Serampore Press. C. Library Movement. 11. Libraries in Bengal – Ancient and Medieval. 12. Development of Modern libraries. D. Development of public libraries. 13. Public Libraries. 14. The National Library. E. Present Scenario of Public Libraries. 15. Public library system. 16. Library Legislation. 17. State Central Library. F. Academic Libraries. 18. Academic Libraries – General. 19. University Libraries – Specific. Part. II. G. Research Libraries. 20. Some Specific Libraries. H. Other Kinds of Libraries. 21. National Contact Libraries. 22. Society Libraries. 23. Museum Libraries. I. LIS Education. 24. Departments of library science. 25. Library science literature in Bengali. J. Library Association and Conferences. 26. Library Associations. K. Library Personnel. 27. Some Pioneers of Library Movement in Bengal. 28. Who Was Who. 29. Who’s Who. L. Miscellaneous. 30. Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation. 31. The Indian National Bibliography. 32. Calcutta Library Network (CALIBNET). 33. Reference source on Bengali (i) 34. Bengalee Surnames. 35. Periodicals on Library and Information studies. 36. Important Events. Section-II: Sikkim. M. Sikkkim. 37. Sikkim – The State. 38. Libraries in Sikkim. Index.
This is the twelfth volume in the series covering the States of West Bengal and Sikkim. Efforts have been made to cover all the facets of the subject starting from history, geography, language and literature to history of libraries, printing and publishing, development of modern libraries, etc.
A detailed account of public libraries from earliest to modern, the National Library, its history and development, the present scenario of public libraries is given.
Full account of academic libraries (University and college libraries), Research libraries, National contact Libraries, society libraries, museum libraries, etc is also provided.
The work also covers LIS education, Library associations and conferences, Library personnel and related subjects like RRRF, IND, CALIBNET, Reference sources, etc.
May be for the first time a comprehensive work of this nature on an important state like West Bengal has been compiled and presented.
