Gazetteer of India Delhi

Delhi being the centre of learning for ages has memories of its early libraries, the library of Humayun, Dara Shikoh’s library 1637, and the famous library in Qudsia Gardens where Zaka-Úllah and C.F. Andrews heed discussions. At present though denied the resourcefulness of the National Library, Calcutta, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal library, the resources of Delhi libraries exceed 2.5 million volumes.The National Buildings Organisation library (1954) has 10,000 books, and the library of the Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply established in 1948 has a stock of 50,000 volumes. The library of the Railway Board has 30,000 volumes and libraries of the Post and Telegraph Directorate, the Directorate of Civil Aviation and the All India Radio have about 40,000 volumes.The libraries of the Meteorological Survey have a collection of about 13,000 volumes. The Defence library, established in 1900,has 50,000 volumes, and the library of Defence Science Organisation, established in 1948, has 35,000 volumes. The Air Head-
quarters and the Technical Reference library have 15.000 volumes.The National Physical Laboratory Library, started in 1950, has 30,000 volumes and 35,000 special reports. The Library of the
Indian Standards Institution, established in 1941, has 70,000 volumes in addition to 4,000 reference books. The libraries of
the Research and Reference Division and the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting have 15.000 and 14,000 volumes respectively. The Central Institute of Education Library has 30,000 volumes. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations has a small library mainly collected from the personal collections of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, and increased by additional literature.