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The library needs an increase in budget to care for aging collections, or the library needs an increase in funding to add new materials for our students to meet deficiencies and weaknesses. This strategy was employed by the Joyner Library at East Carolina University after an inventory and shelf-analysis project in 2005. [20]
The Municipal Library Rawalpindi provides over 40,000 books in various categories for the members. Around 2000 reference books, including dictionaries, encyclopedias and others, are also available. The general public can have access to all the notable national newspapers and magazines, both in English and Urdu languages.
The term library is based on the Latin word liber for 'book' or 'document', contained in Latin libraria 'collection of books' and librarium 'container for books'. Other modern languages use derivations from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothēkē), originally meaning 'book container', via Latin bibliotheca (cf. French bibliothèque or German Bibliothek).
Bait al Hikmat (Urdu: بیت الحکمہ Trans. House of Wisdom) is the main academic library at the Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan.Its gate opened in December 1989 and is named after the famous library, House of Wisdom, in Baghdad.
The National Library of Pakistan (Urdu: قومى کتب خانہ پاکستان) is located in the vicinity of the Red Zone, Islamabad, Pakistan. [4] Argued to be the country's oldest cultural institution, the library is a leading resource for information — ancient and new. [ 5 ]
In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies. Many entered English during the British Raj in colonial India. These borrowings, dating back to the colonial period, are often labeled as "Anglo ...
The Quaid-e-Azam Library (Urdu: قائدِ اعظم لائبریری) is a public library in located within the Bagh-e-Jinnah in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The library was constructed in the mid 19th century during the British Raj and consists of Victorian era Lawrence and Montgomery Halls. The library has a collection of 125,000 books in ...
Rekhta is an Indian web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]