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NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY OF INDIA National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community. It is sponsored and mentored by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDLI provides user group-specific services such as examination preparatory for school and college students and job aspirants. Services for researchers and general learners are also provided. It is developed, operated and maintained from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This simple to use, dependable and personable emblem in green colour which, stands for prosperity, growth, progress

THE THANJAVUR MAHARAJA SERFOJI’S SARASWATHI MAHAL LIBRARY Saraswathi Mahal Library is located in Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India. It is one of the oldest libraries in Asia and has on display a rare collection of palm leaf manuscripts and papers written in Tamil, Hindi, English, Telugu, Marathi and a few other languages indigenous to India. The collection comprises well over 60,000 volumes, though only a tiny fraction of these are on display. The library has a complete catalogue of holdings, which is being made available online. Some rare holdings can be viewed on site by prior arrangement. The Saraswathi Mahal library started as a Royal Library for the private pleasure of the Nayak Kings of Thanjavur who ruled 1535 - 1675 AD. The Maratha rulers who captured Thanjavur in 1675 patronised local culture and further developed the Royal Palace Library until 1855. Most notable among the Maratha Kings was Serfoji II (1798–1832), who was an eminent scholar in many branches of

TAMPUR RAZA LIBRARY The Rampur Raza Library (RRL) is a treasure house of Indo Islamic learning and arts which was setup by the erstwhile Rampur State which was founded by Nawab Faizullah Khan in 1774, who ruled the State up to 1794 and formed the nucleus of the library through his inherited collection of valuable manuscripts, historical documents, Mughal miniature paintings, books and other works of art kept in the Nawabs Toshakhana. He also substantially added to the collection by his acquisition. Nawab Muhammad Yusuf Ali Khan 'Nazim' was a litterateur and a famous poet of Urdu and a disciple of celebrated poet Mirza Ghalib. He created a separate department of the library and shifted the collection to the newly constructed rooms of Kothi Genralie. The Nawab also invited well known calligraphers, illustrators and binders from Kashmir and other parts of India. The later Nawabs continued to enrich the collection. Nawab Kalbe Ali Khan (1865-87) was a distinguished scholar and was

DELHI PUBLIC LIBRARY Delhi Public Library (DPL) is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Culture  and governed by Delhi Library Board, fully financed by the Government of India. Delhi Public Library was started as a UNESCO project in the year 1951 by the Govt. of India. It was inaugurated by first Prime Minister of India Honourable Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, started as small unitary library in old Delhi is slocated opposite Old Delhi Railway Station. It has since developed into a premier public library system in the metropolitan city of Delhi.  DPL is functioning under the administrative control of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Its Headquarter is located in Chandni Chowk opposite Old Delhi railway station. Its emblem has its acronym in red colour sans serif lowercase placed in white circle which is housed in a cyan square.   https://dpl.gov.in/index.php/about-library http://dpl.gov.in/welcome.html https://www.scribd.com/doc/298953769/Swamy-s-Symbols-of-I

KHUDA BAKSH ORIENTAL LIBRARY The Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (KBOPL), located close to the banks of the Ganges, in Patna, holds a unique repository of 21,000 oriental manuscripts and 2.5 lakh printed books. This is a rare collection of books and manuscripts acquired over years by Khuda Bakhsh Khan, who donated his entire collection to the people of Patna by a deed of trust. The Indian government has declared the library, an Institution of National Importance by an act of Parliament in 1969, recognising the immense historical and intellectual value of its collection of rare and valuable material. The library was opened to the public in 1891 by the son of Bihar Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh with 4,000 manuscripts, of which 1,400 were inherited from his father, Maulvi Mohammed Bakhsh. This autonomous institution is being governed by a Board with the Governor of Bihar as its ex-officio Chairman and the responsibility of management of the library is entrusted to its Director. Its emble

NEHRU MEMORIAL MUSEUM LIBRARY The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) established in the memory of Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964) is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture  of the Government of India, located in the majestic Teen Murti House, the official residence of the first Prime Minister of India, it has four major constituents namely, a Memorial Museum, a Library on modern India, a Centre for Contemporary Studies and a Planetarium. Today, the Library houses not just an exhaustive collection of published material on numerous aspects of modern and contemporary history but also possesses an impressive and diverse archival holding. Regularly updated, expanded and made available for research, these holdings make the NMML a major academic destination for Indian and foreign scholars from diverse disciplines and varied fields of interest. Its emblem is a torch with orange flame and black torch handle. The flame is circumscribed by the name of the institution in bla

RAJA RAMMOHAN ROY LIBRARY FOUNDATION The year 1972 is a significant year in the history of library movement in India.  The country was celebrating silver jubilee of independence.  It was the bicentenary year of the birth of Raja Rammohun Roy, a pioneer social reformer who had stressed the need for modern education for the progress of the nation.  The year was also being celebrated as an International Book Year with the slogan ‘Books for All’.  It was in this auspicious year that Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) was established in May, 1972 by the Department of Culture, Government of India to spread library services all over the country in cooperation with State Governments, Union Territory Administrations and other organisations working in the field. Since 2005-06 the Foundation has also taken up the initiative to develop the District Youth Resource Centre (DYRC) in collaboration with Nehru Yuvak Kendra Sangathana, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Sports &am