According to the statistics of 2008-9 the collection of books have reached about 4,77,251 volumes. It can be divided as.
1 |
Books |
Quantity |
|
English |
217,764 |
| |
Urdu |
186,742 |
| |
Arabic |
32,282 |
| |
Persian |
30,788 |
| |
Reference & Rare |
9,675 |
| |
Total |
477,251 |
2 |
Gift & Donation Section |
560 |
| 3 |
Manuscripts Section |
560 |
| |
Persian |
1,025 |
| |
Arabic |
534 |
| |
Urdu |
136 |
| |
Punjabi |
22 |
| |
Sindhi |
03 |
| |
Pushto |
01 |
| |
Turkish |
07 |
| |
Hindi |
06 |
| |
Total |
1,734 |
| Detail of their subjects |
Number |
| Quran and Commentraies |
54 |
| Hadith |
32 |
| Jurisprudence |
91 |
| Sufism |
39 |
| Biographics of Muhammad (P.B.U.H) |
92 |
| History & Travel |
39 |
| Philosophy & Logic |
312 |
| Astronomy, Astrology & Augury |
91 |
| Botany & Zoollogy |
17 |
| Medical Science |
615 |
| Curriculum & Dictionary |
321 |
| Others |
31 |
| Recent Manuscripts of Writers Section |
640 |
Holy Quran (with translation) 421 in 66 languages
| 4 |
Periodical Section |
Quantity |
| |
Current Journals |
2,260 |
| |
Bound Vols. |
29,611 |
The detail of the number of important subjects is as under:
| Subject |
Number |
| Agriculture |
33 |
| Banking |
15 |
| Botany |
13 |
| Biology |
40 |
| Economics |
47 |
| Education |
40 |
| History |
323 |
| Islam |
215 |
| Literature |
10 |
| Medical Science |
444 |
| Pollution |
12 |
| Religions |
48 |
| Science |
671 |
| Trade |
63 |
| 5 |
Newspaper Clippings Section |
|
• The Library receives 19 newspapers daily |
|
• Now 3.66 million clippings on 1425 subjects have been preserved |
| 6 |
Albums Photographs Section |
Quantity |
| |
Photographs |
17,334 |
| 7 |
Audio Visual Aids Section |
Quantity |
| |
Cassettes are available in this section |
2846 |
| 8 |
Display Centre |
Quantity |
| |
The coins of different countries |
450 |
| |
Published Children books |
660 |
| 9 |
Staff of Bait al Hikmah |
41 |
| 10 |
Complete records of magazines & journals received |
2260 |
| |
in Bait al Hikmah are in computer database |
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