State Central Library, Hyderabad and their Digital Collection of 16K+ Texts

Visited the State Central Library,  Afzalpet Hyderabad and was delighted to meet there Scanning Team who have digitized 16,000 Texts chiefly in Arabic, Persian and Urdu.

The List of There Digitizations – was very generously shared with me and I am attaching it here.

All digitized Texts are available at a very affordable rate of 50 Paise/page.

The Digitized Text List is below:

ARABIC BOOKS DVD-NO-01 to 126

DVD_LIST OF ENGLISH BOOKS

LIST OF URDU BOOKS DVDs.01 to 122

NEW ENGLISH CD & DVD LIST

PERSIAN_BOOKS_DVD’S_1_to_72

Some statistics about there Collection I could gather from  http://publiclibraries.ap.nic.in/digitallibrary.aspx

Book stock in State Central Library:-

Language Book stock on 31st March 2006 

Telugu …   1,46,597
English …   1,46,856
Urdu    …      69,619
Hindi    …      46,174
Arabic  …       6,459
Persian …       6,492
Tamil   …       1,223
Kannada …   15,073
Marathi …     17,419
Sanskrit …      3,368

Total …4,59,282

The Scanning Dept also informed me that two Digitization Projects have been executed to date. The Current Project is  is funded and managed by the Raja Ram Mohan Roy Foundation Grants. The Digital Data for the earlier project for DLI was never received by them.

 

8 thoughts on “State Central Library, Hyderabad and their Digital Collection of 16K+ Texts

  1. Joe's avatar Joe

    Hi, I am looking for a scan of a Somānanda’s Śivadṛṣṭi from Ragunāth Mandir Jammu. It is on birch-bark in Śāradā script. Is is possible for you to upload this or send a link to it somewhere online? Please feel free to email personally so we can discuss further. Many thanks in advance

      1. Joe's avatar Joe

        Hi, Thanks so much for the reply. Before writing to you previously, I checked out the Raghunath Mandir Library website on archive.org and I looked through the facebook page. I did not see anything, sorry.

        Just now I searched again through google and found a scribd.com version. I am not a member of scribd. I am unable to join and pay scribd for the document at this time.

        Is there another link for the text that you can share? Preferably on archive.org, since they are free.

        Thank you kindly.

  2. Joe's avatar Joe

    Hi, so sorry to be a bother, maybe you didn’t notice after posting, but the facebook link you included is listed as no longer available.

    If you can, please post another link or email me the pdf directly.

    Thanks so much.

    Kindly,
    Joe

      1. Joe's avatar Joe

        Hello, thank you so very much for all your help. I really did try to locate the file on Facebook, but did not find it. Maybe it is the name I am searching with or expecting to find.
        Could you simply email the pdf directly to me?
        Sorry for the trouble.
        Kindly,
        Joe

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