According to an approximate estimation, the books collected here are over two lakhs. All these volumes have not been completely classified in accordance with library science. At present, the Foundation cannot employ the necessary staff and other facilities for this job. But half of the books have been classified subject-wise. There are about 70 sections. The books have been broadly classified in the following categories: Vedas and Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita, religion and philosophy, art, dance, music, moral maxims (subhashitas), dictionaries, encyclopaedias, linguistics, science, technology, medical books, histories of literature, Old Kannada literature, Jain literature, Buddhist literature, Sharana sahitya, Christian and Islamic literature, folklores, research works, doctoral theses, novels, short stories, poetry, plays, literary criticism, essays, travelogues, humour, women’s literature, children’s literature, biographies, astrology, vaastu, educational books, text-books, articles, journalism, maps; furthermore, publications of Ramakrishna Ashrama, Sahitya Akademi, Prasaranga publications of various universities, Gandhiana, works of and about Ravindranath Tagore, Aurabindo, Nehru, Ambedkar, Shakespeare, works of Nobel laureates, Jnanpith awardees, and books of Sahitya Akademi award-winners; souvenirs and commemoration volumes; all works of Kuvempu, Bendre, Karanth, Masthi, Gokak, Ananthmurthy, Karnad, Kambara, DVG, PuThiNa, Rajarathnam, CPK, Dejagow, Tejaswi, Bhyrappa, Kanavi, Shivarudrappa, Adiga, KSNa, Gowrish Kaikini, and other renowned writers have been classified and can be easily accessed. |