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Central Reference Library is an Indian National Bibliographic Agency in
Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
which run under Ministry of Culture of India. It provides bibliographic services to scholars, universities, institutions and government agencies. This library has started doing digitalization of rare and old books and documents. It receives three published book from any publisher of India as per provision of ''Delivery of Books and Newspapers Act 1956''.


History

It was established in 1955 in the campus of
National Library of India The National Library of India is a library located in Belvedere Estate, Alipore, Kolkata, India. It is India's largest library by volume and public record. The National Library is under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Currently, Dr. ...
as National Bibliographic and Documentation Centre.


References

{{reflist Government agencies of India National libraries Ministry of Culture (India) Libraries established in 1955