[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[geni]

On 01/10/2007, Angus McLellan <angusmclellan at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are 22 million books in the National Library of India.
2,270,954. 2.2 million

http://www.nlindia.org/useful_info.html

It helps when you release they put the commas in funny places

> Over 25%
> are written in Indian languages. The library receives copies of 902
> newspapers and 17000-odd periodicals, and has over a million volumes
> of bound periodicals. [ Source http://www.nlindia.org ]
>


118K not over 1 million

> And do the states have state libraries with manuscript and periodical
> holdings? Well, Andhra Pradesh does, even if the library doesn't yet
> have a website, so quite probably they all do.
>
> Anyway, you were saying?
>
> Angus

2.2 million is less than a 10th of the British library holdings. While
technically the British library covers a much larger land area (all
the imperial records and the like) there is still a concentration on
subjects within the UK (total Indian records cover only 300K documents
http://www.bl.uk/collections/orientaloffice.html )

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geni