Abstract

Paper narrates the organization and maintenance of personal library collections of the popular scholars and book lovers in India, Europe and the United States of America. Also highlights the type of furniture used to shelve the books and reference collections, including the method of retrieval of books and other library sources. Further, the paper points out the building architecture and its suitability in some of the cases in Europe and the USA. Above all, paper discusses the modus operandi of the maintenance of precious collections by the Government when the owners of the personal library collections die and when nobody takes care of their libraries or preserve the library collections for the use of the future generations to come.

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