(21 Dec 2025) The National Library of India (NLI) is set to sign a series of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with universities across the country, making a significant step towards strengthening academic collaboration, research capacity and human resource development in the field of library and information sciences. The proposed agreements aim to create a structured…
(7 Jun 2022) Ajay Pratap Singh, the new director-general of the National Library, plans to restore and rejuvenate the National Library’s historic city hub at Esplanade which used to house newspapers and periodicals with IT support; develop repositories of all 22 scheduled languages, and focus on developing virtual environment to provide support to information seekers…
(30 July 2017) On 6 July 2017, during the Second Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Culture, Han Yongjin, Director of the National Library of China (NLC), Adam Jayme Muniz, Director General, Department of International Promotion, the Ministry of Culture of Brazil, Mikhail Afanasev, Director General, State Public Historical Library, Russia, Arun Kumar Chakraborty, Director General…
(8 October 2016) Even as it faces acute staff shortage, National Library authorities are allegedly sitting for decades on the appointment of about 18 candidates on compassionate grounds. Such appointments are usually given to a dependent family member when a government employee dies while in service or retires on medical grounds. As reported by The…
(12 July 2016) Thousands of priceless books, newspapers and periodicals had to be hastily evacuated from the language division of Bhawa Bhavan at the National Library on Tuesday morning after the room was inundated by water leaking from the airconditioning plant and rainwater pouring in through broken window panes. The damage is yet to be…