{"id":22,"date":"2021-03-18T06:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livestom.stthomas.ac.in\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2022-10-20T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T06:32:20","slug":"collection-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/livestom.stthomas.ac.in\/index.php\/collection-and-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection and Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The valuable collections include forty sets of Encyclopediae, twenty sets of Dictionaries and Directories of various categories. Some of the collections are very rare, viz. 4 editions of Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica, 2 editions of World Book Encyclopedia, Collier\u2019s Encyclopedia (24 volumes), Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (29 volumes), Compton\u2019s Pictured Encyclopedia (15 volumes), The Book of Knowledge: The Children\u2019s Encyclop\u00e6dia, International Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environment (30 volumes), Encyclopedia of Visual Art (10 volumes) and Encyclopedia of Animal World (21 volumes). In the collection of Dictionaries there are 20 sets of various types, among them A New English Dictionary (9 volumes), published in 1888, is the rarest and the most valuable. Moreover, A Dictionary of English Language abridged by Robert Gordon Latham from that of Samuel Johnson in 1882, Malayalam-English Dictionary by Hermann Gundert and Malayalam-Portuguese Dictionary by Arnos Padre are available in the Library.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Library statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Number of books<\/th>Number of periodicals<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
97883<\/td>65<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Subject Wise Statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Subject<\/th>Number<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Botany<\/td>3494<\/td><\/tr>
Chemistry<\/td>3904<\/td><\/tr>
Commerce<\/td>7620<\/td><\/tr>
Computer Science<\/td>2893<\/td><\/tr>
Economics<\/td>9837<\/td><\/tr>
Electronics<\/td>650<\/td><\/tr>
English & literature<\/td>19065<\/td><\/tr>
Hindi<\/td>6880<\/td><\/tr>
History<\/td>3034<\/td><\/tr>
Malayalam<\/td>15955<\/td><\/tr>
Mathematics<\/td>3914<\/td><\/tr>
Physical Education<\/td>554<\/td><\/tr>
Physics<\/td>4259<\/td><\/tr>
Political Science<\/td>1125<\/td><\/tr>
Reference<\/td>1102<\/td><\/tr>
Sanskrit<\/td>1215<\/td><\/tr>
Sociology\/Social Work<\/td>1648<\/td><\/tr>
Statistics<\/td>2019<\/td><\/tr>
Zoology<\/td>3989<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Online Journals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n