CENTRAL REFERENCE LIBRARY

Welcome to Central Reference Library

      Dr.S. Siva Prasad Senior Library and Information Officer

The Central Reference Library is a sub ordinate office of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India which is situated at Kolkata.  It also acts as the National Bibliographic Agency of the country. This library is administered by a Librarian who is also General Editor of its publications. The primary objective of this institution is to compile and publish the Indian National Bibliography, an authoritative record of books published in 14 different languages of India including English. It also publishes the Index Indiana; an index to articles in contemporary Indian language periodicals also comes under its ambit.          

The CRL publishes the following :

1. Indian National Bibliography Annual.

2. Indian National Bibliography Monthly.

3. Language Bibliography Annual.

4. Special Bibliography.