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Maulana Azad Library

India · built 1877

The Maulana Azad Library is the central library of Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, India. It is the largest university library in Asia. The seven-storey building is surrounded by 4.75 acres (1.92 ha) of lawns and gardens. It has about 1,500,000 print collection out of which 1,381,782 are books. It celebrated its 73rd anniversary on 7 December 2023. The library received a donation of around 5000 books which were the personal collection of the poet Kaifi Azmi. Prof Nishat Fatima serves as the current university librarian of the library.

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