Who was William Borden, the American who helped take libraries to nearly every corner of Baroda?
Borden’s cataloguing system gave readers across the state – including in towns and villages – access to 10 lakh books.
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Borden’s cataloguing system gave readers across the state – including in towns and villages – access to 10 lakh books.
The library was a cog in the wheel of Sayajirao III's larger vision for education in the state of Baroda and it was so close to his heart that the Maharaja donated to it 20,000 books from his personal collection.