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Computer Center: established in 1996 to develop a centralized information system, provide technical support, standardise cataloging, manage collection and computer network development. Also in this section are catalogers and bibliographers maintaining a written list of manuscripts in the library,
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Marashi Najafi was a cleric, as well as being near his own tomb. The cost of the library was at first personally financed by its founder and his descendants; but, beginning in 1997, the library began to be funded as a governmental institution, under Resolution 205 of the
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There are over 1,500,000 printed books in
Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, and other non-Latin languages. This collection is housed on three floors of the new buildings. There is also an archival library of books of Communist and anti-Islamic
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As of 2003, manuscripts, rare books, and lithographs amounted to 60,000 in number, including 31,000 volumes on manuscript basics, words, and ideas; logic and philosophy; theosophy and mysticism; and the
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The periodical section has more than 2,500 journals and newspapers in
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once remarked that, "the library of
Ayatollah Marashi Najafi is an unparalleled library and perhaps unrivaled in Iran". The library contains books in at least 30 different languages, including
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having published thirty volumes of the catalog so far, and anticipating 60 volumes in total.
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