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Library and Information Society

Notes Library Statistics

• Number of books more than 2,270,000
• Number of maps more than 86,000
• Number of manuscripts more than 3,200
• Reading rooms accommodation more than 550
• Shelf space more than 45 kilometers.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. ...... is a public funded institution that provides books for loan and is used mainly by the
very old and the very young.
2. The National library is located at ...... very near to the Alipore zoo in Kolkata.
3. Jatiya Granthaghar in Belvedere Bhawan was shifted in the year ...... .
4. ...... is the second largest public library in Asia.
5. ...... was formed in the year 1891.

5.3 Indian Library Association

The Indian Library Association is a premier association committed to the cause of Library Movement
and Development. The Indian Library Association is the national association which represents those
who work in or advocate for Indian libraries. ILA members work in college, university, public,
special (corporate, non-profit and government) and school libraries. ILA has provided a wide variety
of services and programs to its members and others in the library community since its formation in
1933. ILA’s Executive Council and its divisions are advised by others groups and committees. The
year 1933 happens to be the most significant year in the history of Library & Information Science in
India. It was September 13, 1933 when Indian Library Association was formally formed at the First
All India Library Conference at Calcutta.

The Indian Library Association is a premere association committed the cause of library
movement and development.

For initial 12 years the office of ILA was housed in the Imperial Library at Calcutta.

It was shifted to Delhi in 1946 and remained there till September 1953 in the
University of Delhi and thereafter it shifted back to Calcutta.
In August 1964 the office moved to Delhi again and was housed in Delhi Public Library. An extra-
ordinary General Body Meeting held on May 24,1970 made a change in the constitution to make
Delhi/New Delhi as the permanent headquarter of the Association. Now the office of the Association
is housed in its own one room flat located in a commercial building in north Delhi which was
purchased way back in 1978. The office was finally moved to the present building in April, 1982.

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