Top 10 Reading Libraries To Visit In Vadodara
Library : A building, room, or an organization that has a collection, especially of books, for people to read or borrow, usually without payment.
A library’s collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, micro form, CD’s, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Discs, e-books, databases, and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items.
Libraries often provide quiet areas for studying, and they also often offer common areas to facilitate group study and collaboration. Libraries often provide public facilities for access to their electronic resources and the Internet.
Types of Libraries:
There are four major types of libraries:
- Academic libraries serve colleges and universities.
- Public libraries serve cities and towns of all types.
- School libraries serve students from kindergarten to grade 12.
- Special libraries are in specialized environments, such as hospitals, corporations, museums, the military, private business, and the government.
Top 10 Libraries in Vadodara
First Library you must visit in Vadodara
Central Library: Mandvi
The Central Library of Baroda was built in Year 1910-11. It was one of the first public libraries to be set up in India. It shares a unique resemblance to the world’s finest library, the prestigious Library of Congress, Washington, USA – both boast of a distinctive shelf-rack and glass flooring system that is disaster-proof, allow for as much natural daylight as possible and, most importantly, is extremely user and book-friendly.
The Central Library was actually born in Lukshmi Villas Palace of Maharaja. The library is situated in Mandvi Area, near to Champaner Gate in the Old City. The stack room is the main gem of library which is lengthened to 4 floors and is 85 feet long, ~35 feet broad and with 350 slotted angle racks which can house 3.5 lakh books. The stack house is designed a warehouse with long, glass-paned windows and is oriented in north-south axis to get the maximum daylight.
In the old days, the area facing windows was landscaped with shrubs and trees which processed moisturized air into dry air, keeping library’s temperature mild.
Second Library you must visit in Vadodara
Smt. Hansa Mehta library
Shrimati Hansa Mehta Library, the University Library of M S University of Baroda was established on May 1, 1950. At the time of establishment of the M. S. University of Baroda, a collection of 25,000 books belonging to the two State Libraries (Huzur Political Office and Secretariat Library) was handed over to the University Library. There were several colleges in Baroda – Baroda College (for Arts), Science Institute, Commerce College, and Secondary Teacher’s Training College etc. These colleges had libraries of their own. These libraries continued to remain as Faculty Libraries and were administered independently. Thus the University Library System was established on 1-5-1950, which was housed in the central block of Old Residency Office Building. Approximately 3,500 books are preserved in this precious collection, which comprises some noteworthy titles, which are out of print. It has a single largest reading room in India of about 10,600 sq. ft. which can accommodate about 1100 readers at a time.
Third Library you must visit in Vadodara
The Mother’s Library
Since 2005 this library has been offering wider variety of novels, computer science books, Gujarati books, children’s books, educational books, English fiction books, Gujarati Navlika & English Non-Fiction books.
It offers all type of magazines and newspapers and a nice sitting arrangement for student and readers- they keep all type of books and also purchase latest books.
Fourth Library you must visit in Vadodara
Offline Library
It caters books and periodicals for competitive exam Preparations, postal services, conference room, computer and projector, pantry service & books on demand.
Facilities available include- a) High resolution printer/scanners.
- High resolution printer/scanners.
- Copiers.
- 24X7 security & CCTV surveillance.
- 24X7 fully air-conditioned reading/ workspace.
- Monthly seminar by motivational speakers/entrepreneurs of various fields.
- Clean & cohesive atmosphere.
Fifth Library you must visit in Vadodara
Gujarat Pustakalay Sahayak Sahakari Mandal Limited
The library is well maintained with care and it is really peaceful to read all kinds of books. A variety of books are available here which is the best under different categories and the librarian also rents some books to home for cheap rates. Also, the books are really informative and useful for all to learn from.
Sixth Library you must visit in Vadodara
Islamic library & Study Centre
This is a big library with a very huge stock. They have all kinds of books in the library like subject books, comics & other monthly magazines. They also have many religious books for readers. They have a huge seating capacity for readers.
Seventh Library you must visit in Vadodara
Shreenath Library
Shreenath Library is a very big library in size. One can find books of every subject and in fact the membership fee is also very low with a good environment to sit and study peacefully.
Eighth Library you must visit in Vadodara
Bango Circulating Library
This library situated in Makarpura offers wide variety of books of all categories, classifications of all types ranging from social, modern, cultural, environmental and aesthetic too.
It offers periodicals, magazines, newspapers and a lot more to make all its customers satisfied and content.
Ninth Library you must visit in Vadodara
District Library
Vadodara Government District Library in Alkapuri, Vadodara is a top company in the category libraries, also known for digital library services, mobile libraries etc. It is open for every citizen and has more than 25000 books with a peaceful environment for reading.
Tenth Library you must visit in Vadodara
ICAI Students Library
This library is only for CA Students and having a good reading atmosphere with good chairs. Location of this library is its main advantage.
