My experience at the Kolkata libraries

I was on a research trip to Kolkata from Feb-Mar 09. It was meant to look for my primary and secondary sources needed for my Ph.D on 19the century Bengali satire currently going on at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. On my arrival, I’ve wasted almost no time in acquring myself membership of the libraries i.e National Library, Asiatic Society, Bangiya Sahitya Parisad etc. The membership process in all of these was easy and fast thanks to the very nice and helpful persons I knew and contacted beforehand. But I was surprised to know that there exists a rule in the Asiatic Society that only research-scholars are allowed to visit the library or are eligible for membership i.e someone who has either doing or has completed M.Phil or Ph.D  or is post-doctorate student. That means someone who want to pursue knowledge on his/ her own, denied a membership without the institutional stamp beside his/her name. Moreover, during my search for old and rare books  from late 19 th to mid 20 th century, I came to another revelation. Some staff of the same institution provide copy-service unoficially for the library visitors, who, due the restrictive rules of the photocopy facilities, which allows only a certain number of pages of each book to be copied, could not get the opportunity of photocopying enough pages they need, irrespective of the conditions of the books.

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