Central Reference Library is an Indian National Bibliographic Agency in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

which run under Ministry of Culture of India. It provides bibliographic services to scholars, universities, institutions and government agencies. This library has started doing digitalization of rare and old books and documents. It receives three published book from any publisher of India as per provision of ''Delivery of Books and Newspapers Act 1956''.

History

It was established in 1955 in the campus of

National Library of India The National Library of India is a library located in Belvedere Estate, Alipore, Kolkata, India. It is India's largest library by volume and public record. The National Library is under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Currently, Dr. ...

as National Bibliographic and Documentation Centre.

References

{{reflist Government agencies of India National libraries Ministry of Culture (India) Libraries established in 1955