Nagaland State Library

Nagaland State Library
LocationPolice Reserve Hill, Kohima, Nagaland, India
Established1981
Collection
Size58,000
Access and use
Population served
all citizens

Nagaland State Library is a Metropolitan Library in Kohima, Nagaland, India. It is located in Police Reserve Hill on the road leading to Jotsoma.

History

Nagaland State Library was established in 1981 under the Nagaland Government's Department of Arts & Culture.

In 2016-17 the library received ₹1,75,48,000 (over ₹17 million) under the National Mission on Libraries (NML) for upgradation, subscription for e-journals and e-books, and procurement of reading resources, and other programmes. By 2019 the library had a collection of more than 58,000 books with 3796 registered members. The library had 17 people employed which was much less than the required staff and experts to manage it.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Branches - Art and Culture Nagaland". Department of Art and Culture, Nagaland. Archived from the original on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "State library needs to be upgraded". Nagaland Post. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Locals connect through Facebook to open Dimapur's first independent library". The Indian Express. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Librarian scarcity in Nagaland". The Morung Express. 19 August 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  5. ↑ "Modernisation of Libraries". www.pib.gov.in. Archived from the original on 4 May 2025. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
  6. ↑ "Tejas: National Mission on Libraries". culturescheme.dashboard.nic.in. Retrieved 10 July 2025.

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