his is the twelth volume in the 'series' covering the State of West Bengal and Sikkim. Efforts have been made to cover all the facets of the subject starting from history, geography, language adn literature to history of libraries; pringing and publishing, development of modern libraries, etc.

A detailed account of public libraries from earliest to modern; the National Library, its history and development; the present scenario of public libraries is given.

Full account of academic libraries (University and college libraries); Research libraries; National Contact Libraries; Society Libraries; Museum Libraries, etc in also provided.

The work also covers LIS education; Library associations and conferences; Library personnel; and related subjects like RRRF, IND, CALIBNET, Reference sources, etc.

May be for the first time a comprehensive work of this nature on an important state like West Bengalelled and presented.