more-inIn a decision which may adversely affect the marketing of Indian books in other countries, the Ministry of Culture (MoC) has decided to merge the functions of the Central Reference Library (CRL) with the National Library. The CRL, located in the National Library campus in Kolkata, is responsible for the publication and sale of the Indian National Bibliography (INB). The INB is the list of all books published in India annually and is the key source for foreign libraries to know about the books published in India. “The Secretary (Culture) has directed that the work of cataloguing (National Library) and bibliography (CRL), should be merged…” the Under Secretary of MoC N.K.Sinha stated in a letter to the head Librarian of CRL and the Director General of the National Library. CRL has to catalogue 3,000 books and the National Library 6,000 books monthly target, respectively.

Source: The Hindu June 20, 2017 16:18 UTC