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LIBRARY - Libraries are very ancient in history. Records of imperial libraries in China are there since 500 B.C. The founder of classical Taoism, Lao Tse was a librarian. Takshila University of Gandhara in the 6th century B.C. was a center of advanced studies and is considered to be the first University in the world. The University had an excellent library. The library collection included works on the Vedic religion, political science, literature, medicine, and philosophy. The Nalanda University in Bihar (300-850 A.D.) had a huge library complex known as Dharmaganj.

The first recorded Librarian was Zenodotus (284 BC) of Ephesus, holding that post from the end of Ptolemy I's reign. He was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, and Homeric scholar. A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he was the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria. He lived during the reigns of the first two Ptolemies. The largest library in the world is the US Library of Congress in Washington DC founded in 1800. Nearly 168 million separate items occupy 530 miles of shelving with millions and millions of books, maps, photographs, sound recordings, rare books, telephone books and much more. The Cartography Section holds 4.5 million items. More than one million doctoral dissertations are at the Library of Congress along with the world's largest collection of comic books. The newspaper collection is also the most extensive in the world with papers dating back to the late 1600s.

S. R. Ranganathan is considered to be one of the greatest librarians who single-handedly created a brand new system of library cataloguing. The biggest library in India is the National Library at Belvedere Estate in Alipore which is located in Kolkata. It is the largest library in the country by volume. It is under the Department of Culture, government of India, established in the year of 1836.