Jain Center Los Angeles CA 2008 09 Pratishta Souvenior

Author(s): Jain Center So CA Los Angeles
Publisher: USA Jain Center Southern California

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Harsha Parikh
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Ramesh Doshi
JAINA & JAIN CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NATIONAL LIBRARY
The JAINA/JCSC National Library is managed by Jain Center of Southern California (JCSC). It is currently located on the second floor of the JCSC Cultural Complex. The library will be relocated to the Post Office building once it is renovated under Phase III of the Jain Center Expansion Plan.
The JAINA/JCSC National Library is one of the biggest Jain Libraries outside of India. A collection of over 10,000 books, audio/video cassettes and CDs in English, Gujarati and Hindi are available to any interested member in the United States and Canada. A comprehensive list of our collection has been compiled using library management software and posted on the www.jaincenter.net. Any interested member can search the books by
title or author, and initiate an e-mail request to the librarian. The material is sent to the requester. This is a free service, but your donations are greatly appreciated.
The library offerings include books on lives of Tirthankars, stories of famous Sadhu-Sahdvis & ShravakShravikas, precious and rare Agamas (Shree Aacharaang Sutra, Shree Bhagawati Sutra, Shree Nandisutra, Shree Uttaradhyan Sutra, etc) in Gujarati & Hindi, and biographies of Shrimad Rajchandra and Acharya Tulsi. The library has recently received a rare collection of stories on Ashtapad, the Nirvan Place of Lord Adinath. For children our library offers a broad variety of storybooks and DVDs on Tirthankar Mahavir's Life and His Teachings. The multimedia offered by our library includes audio/video cassettes, DVDs and MP3 CDs consisting of lectures given by dignitaries during their visits to our Jain Center since 1987.
In addition to a large collection donated to JAINA by Prem Gada, almost all the items in our library are donated by others. We began without a formal plan or funding for book acquisition, but now we are seeking help from several organizations in India to help us in various ways - (a) to develop a formal plan to acquire sive beard you th new books, including electronic books; (b) to prepare a recommended list of books on Jainism that we can circulate to interested private and public libraries for their acquisitions; and (c) to get books from publishers or philanthropists for free or at discounted prices.
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Our dream is to develop a state-of-the-art library facility that will include (a) reading areas with magazines and newspapers for youth and adults; (b) research and study rooms equipped with computers with Internet access; and (c) exchange privileges with universities and research institutions in the USA, India
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and other parts of the world. The rate of progress in achieving such a goal is slow due to limited resources - both funds and volunteers - that are currently committed and focused on completing Phase I and II of the Jain Center Expansion Plan.
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The Library Committee consists of Harsha Parikh, Virendra Shah, and Ramesh Doshi. Harsha Parikh is the JAINA/JCSC Library Coordinator and can be contacted at hparikh84@yahoo.com. Ramesh Doshi is the JAINA Library Chair and can be contacted at rcdoshi@yahoo.com.
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