Madan Pustakalaya

Madan Pustakalaya is one of the oldest, popular and first libraries of Nepal which was established in 1956. This library contain of both old and new books and periodicals in the Nepali language. Madan Mani Dixit, chairman of the library established library in order to conserve all types of books materials and informative materials. There are altogether 26,854 books, 5,125 newspapers, 7000 digitized photo, 35000 wall paintings, 500 hand written and 700 audio-video records. So, they are using microfilm and digital technology. According to the members of the library, the first Nepali book to be printed was Holy Bible in 1820. Nepali paper are use to preserve a 100 years back photo of Rana Prime Minister Junga Bahadur Rana and different painting and arts. Similarly, first issue of Gorkhapatra is also saved. Interesting part of this library is that, they use different technologies, chemicals, storage media, paper etc to save the ancient treasures which are very important for future.