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 IndexThis 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 etcA detailed account of public libraries from earliest to modern the National Library its history and development the present scenario of public libraries is givenFull account of academic libraries University and college libraries Research libraries National contact Libraries society libraries museum libraries etc is also providedThe work also covers LIS education Library associations and conferences Library personnel and related subjects like RRRF IND CALIBNET Reference sources etcMay be for the first time a comprehensive work of this nature on an important state like West Bengal has been compiled and presented 1044 pp.…