Hamdard University Library, Jamia Hamdard

Library Collection

Library resources have been categorised under two collections:

Conventional Collection
Non-Conventional Collection

1. Conventional Collection

Under conventional collection the library holdings exceed 1.75 lakhs items which include books, bound volumes of journals, rare books, manuscripts, etc. The library receives Indian and foreign journals covering medicine, pharmacy, nursing, biotechnology, toxicology, computer science, management science, religion and social sciences.

Special Collections

The library has some special collections, which were donated by renowned scholars of India. These collections are:

Name of Collection	Name of Donor & Year of Donation	Languages	Location
Naziria Collection	Maulana Nazir Hussain 1982	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	Central Library
Malik Ram Collection	Malik Ram 1995	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--
A.R. Mufti Collection	Mufti Atiqur Rahman Usmani 2000	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--
Malhotra Collection	Dr. Rajinder Kumar Malhotra 2002	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--
Azad Collection	Asrar Ahmad Azad 1990	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--
Badauni Collection	Tayyib Baksh Badauni 2001	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--
Dr. Tanveer Alvi Collection	Dr. Tanvir Alvi 1997	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--
Hyderabad Collection	Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu, Hyderabad 1980	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--
American Collection	American Embassy, New Delhi 2003	English	--do--
Qasmi Collection	Maulana Akhlaq Hussain Qasmi 1999	Urdu, Arabic and Persian	--do--

2. Non-Conventional Collection

Under Non-Conventional collection, there are microfilm rolls, covering very rare manuscripts, microfiches, 2 CD-ROMs databases -MEDLINE and TOXLINE, and a large number of CDs, covering computer science, management science, medicine, pharmacy, nursing and other fields.