The Mysore University Library serves the academic community of the
University of Mysore
The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and the premiership of Sir M. Visvesvaraya. The university is recognised by t ...
at the located in Mysore, Hassan and Mandya. The Library is the largest and also oldest among the
University Libraries in the southern Indian State of Karnataka.
Collection
The library was started with 2,311 volumes. It has today a resource collection of nearly 7.5 lakh documents in its system and a membership of 5600 users, including 600 Faculty members, 600 Researchers, 3,500 PG Students, 500 Office Staff, and 400 Graduates of Mysore City.
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/ref> The Mysore University Library offers a collection of over 2,400 journal titles and 1 lakh volumes of journals.
Special collections
The library has a rich collection of books relating to "History of Mysore" and administrative reports on the princely State of Mysore, including works on Indian Painting, art and architecture. The library supports the Oriental Research Institute, including manuscripts in Sanskrit
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, Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
and Telugu manuscripts. The entire special collection constitutes 84,000 works in 29,000 volumes. The annual publication of ''Mysore Orientalist'' provides information about the continuing growth of the collection and about research activities involving this source material.Google
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There are around 100,000 manuscripts in the Mysore University Library. These manuscripts are written on relatively fragile paper and palm leaves, some dating back to the eighth century. The library has identified the manuscripts which are to be digitized first. These include subjects as diverse as ayurveda, mathematics, medicine, science, astrology and economy."Google to digitise 800,000 books at Mysore varsity"
, ''Hindustan Times'', 20 May 2007.
See also
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Google Books Library Project
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Notes
References
* "Google to digitise 800,000 books at Mysore varsity," ''Hindustan Times'' (Indo-Asian News Service, New Delhi). 20 May 2007.
* Riding, Alan
"France Detects a Cultural Threat in Google,"''The New York Times''. 11 April 2005.
External links
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