Library and Regional Center
The North Eastern Regional Centre (NERC) of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is in the Gauhati University Central Library Extension Building. Along with Bangalore ICHR Regional Centre, this is the only regional centre in GU so far.
The university's Krishna Kanta Handiqui Library is a designated 'Manuscript Conservation Centre' (MCC) under the National Mission for Manuscripts established in 2003.
The library is the largest in Assam, holding about 850,000 books, magazines and journals in its collection. It also hosts about 5,000 valuable priceless manuscripts, some more than 300 years old.
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