Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam — Page 345
− Khilafat Library − The study of the history of Ahmadiyyat clearly suggests that ± members of the Ahmadiyya always have shown great Jama'at ± − interest in scholarly research. Accordingly, there has been a strong tendency towards establishment of libraries both at the individual and the levels. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II , in 1952, at the Jama'at ra − ± ± − − ± occasion of instructed that from now on his Majlis-i-Mushawarat − libraries and the central library of the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya ± ± should be joined together into one library. Accordingly, in 1952, a central library was started in three rooms in the Private Secretary's office. Later on it was felt that, in Rabwah, such a library should be established from which, besides the ordinary public of Rabwah, students could also benefit. To this end, on January 18, 1970, Khalifatul Masih III laid rh − − ± foundation, and on October 13, 1971 he inaugurated the Khilafat − Library in Rabwah. All the expenses towards the construction of the library, purchase of the furniture and books were borne by Fadl-i-‘Umar Foundation. There is a committee which supervises ± working of the Library. The administration of the Library works directly under the supervision This of Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya. ± ± library has more than 100,000 books and has ample space for readers, research scholars and administrative work. There is separate area for ladies in the library. At a time two books can be issued for 15 days to the members of the library. There is an area reserved for reading daily newspapers and 15 different daily newspapers are available to the readers. On the average, about 300 people visit this area to read the daily newspapers. There is another area in the library where almost 100 weekly and monthly magazines, in different languages, are kept for the readers. Furthermore, the Library has the following sections: 345