Professional Documents
Culture Documents
National Library has about 3600 rare and historically important manuscripts
in different languages. These manuscripts are preserved separately along
with other important and rare books in the Rare Books division. The
xylographs presented by H. E. the Dalai Lama are also preserved in this
collection.
The library has an extensive collection of maps from the 17th century
onwards. Indian topographical sheets of earlier days (at scale of one inch,
half inch and quarter inch to a mile) and maps of natural resources,
population, transport and communication systems, agricultural production,
soil, vegetation and the geology of India form the major part of the
collection. At present the library has 85,000 printed maps, 54 cartographic
manuscripts, and 280 atlases
The library has around 500 rolls of Microfilms and 1000 Microfiches. These
are preserved in the Rare Books division. The Census of India (1872-1951)
is one of the most important and rare document available in the form of
Microfiches.
2 If the article is a review, also look for the main point. It may be
helpful to read or skim the whole article, look away, and ask yourself
what you felt was the main idea.
3 Other information you may want to include in your paragraph: any
limitations or gaps you noticed, anything that seems to contradict
something you read elsewhere, or just anything that you think is
important or interesting.
4 If the article is empirical, it is also a good idea to write down the
methods that were used, the research design, the number of
participants, and the type of population.
5 Sometimes, you may even want to write down the names of the
statistical procedures used to analyze the data or even some of the
statistics, depending on your assignment.
5.3 Sample
5.4 Hypotheses
6. Methodology
7. Limitations
8. Organization of the Study (Tentative chapterisation)
9. Conclusion
By looking at aspects of the Rare Book Division's holdings ranging from
religion and reform to popular culture and literature, we have attempted to
highlight the strengths of rare book holdings related to United States women's
history, to demonstrate the richness and variety of these resources, and to point
out some of the division's contemporary holdings and unique treasures.
Because the Rare Book Classified Collection mirrors holdings in the General
Collections, most of the same subjects and formats are found in both and may
be accessed using the same subject headings and search strategies. Because not
all of the division's special collections have online access, it is important to
consult special card files and finding aids in the Rare Book Reading Room in
addition to the online catalog. While we could not touch on all subjects and
formats that might interest researchers, we hope this survey of holdings will
suggest new ways in which the division's resources can be used to complement
materials found in other Library divisions.