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Cost Estimates for Indian Vernacular Languages

Note: To estimate the cost to your library of receiving materials in BENGALI (BEN), GUJARATI (GUJ), HINDI (HIN), KANNADA (KAN), MALAYALAM (MAL), MARATHI (MAR), ORIYA (ORI), PANJABI (PAN), SANSKRIT (SAN), TAMIL (TAM), TELUGU (TEL), and URDU (URD), please circle the costs corresponding to the languages and subjects selected, and list the total costs on the worksheet.

# SUBJECT BEN GUJ HIN KAN MAL MAR ORI PAN SAN TAM TEL URD

1

Reference

10 10 200 5 10 50 10 5 30 10 5 20

2

Occult sciences

10 10 50 5 10 10 5 5 75 5 5 5

3

Comprehensive
SA religions

80 150 700 75 60 125 50 125 1200 125 75 500

4

Selective
SA religions

60 100 400 50 50 100 20 50 750 25 50 400

5

Christianity

5 5 5 5 25 5 5 5 5 10 5 5

6

Fine arts

125 25 300 100 25 125 15 15 60 100 125 60

7

Linguistics

30 30 225 50 15 50 15 25 175 75 10 25

8

Creative translations

5 5 125 5 10 5 10 5 5 5 30 5

9

Comprehensive
literature

600 400 2,000 250 375 400 225 375 350 575 500 750

10

Representative
literature

375 250 1,000 200 325 200 175 175 300 400 350 550

11

Selective literature

175 100 400 125 200 75 50 80 200 200 200 300

12

Comprehensive lit.
history & critic.

300 275 1,200 225 100 300 100 125 150 250 200 500

13

Selective lit.
history & critc.

125 75 700 150 50 175 50 50 100 125 125 300

14

Folk literature

20 25 50 50 10 25 10 5 5 10 5 5

15

Modern Sanskrit

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75 0 0 0

16

Children's literature

5 5 10 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

17

Physical sciences

5 5 15 10 5 25 5 5 30 5 5 5

18

Agricultural sciences

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

19

Western medicine

5 5 5 5 5 10 5 5 5 5 5 5

20

Eastern medicine

5 5 20 5 10 10 5 5 125 20 5 5

21

South Asia history

175 60 750 90 50 200 50 50 5 60 75 100

22

Comprehensive
social sciences

200 150 500 200 100 225 80 50 40 100 100 125

23

Selective
social sciences

100 50 300 125 25 100 30 10 20 50 25 75

24

Law

10 5 25 5 10 10 5 5 50 5 5 5

25

Agricultural economics

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 10 5 5 5

26

Social welfare

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

27

Gender studies

30 10 10 10 20 20 5 5 5 15 10 5

28

Human rights

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST BY LANGUAGE:

COMPREHENSIVE

1,640 1,200 6,210 1,120 865 1,620 625 840 2,420 1,400 1,190 2,150

REPRESENTATIVE

1,415 1,050 5,210 1,070 815 1,420 575 640 2,370 1,225 1,040 1,950

SELECTIVE

920 550 3,610 820 555 1,020 320 355 1,750 750 715 1,350

Note: Subject 03 (Comprehensive South Asia religions) includes ALL titles supplied under subject #4. Subject 4 ( Selective South Asia religions,) includes only titles supplied under this set. Subject 09 (comprehensive literature set) includes ALL titles supplied under subjects # 10 and #11. Subject 10 (Representative literature set) includes ALL titles supplied under subject # 11. Subject 11 (Selective literature set) includes only titles supplied under this set. Subject 12 (Literary history & Criticism, Comprehensive) includes ALL titles supplied under subject #13. Subject 13 (Selective literary history & criticism) includes only titles supplied under this set. Subject 22 (Comprehensive Social sciences) includes ALL titles supplied under subject #23. Subject 23 (Selective Social sciences) includes only titles supplied under this set. For a general discussion of selection criteria for each of the three levels of selectivity represented by these sets, please see Levels of Selectivity.

Languages Not Available By Subject & Other Formats

Arabic

$50

 

RECORDINGS

 

Assamese

$200

 

01   Art, Hindustani

$800

European Languages

$50

 

02   Art, Carnatic

$200

Hindi Dialects

$175

 

03   Tribal Music

$10

Kashmiri

$75

 

04   Folk Music

$200

Konkani

$100

 

05   Film Music

$200

Manipuri

$25

 

06   Modern Songs

$100

Nepali

$120

 

07   Miscellaneous Music

$100

Pali

$75

 

08   Devotional Music

$300

Persian

$100

 

09   Talking Books

$50

Prakrit

$150

 

Recording subtotal

$1,960

Rajasthani

$125

     

Sindhi

$75

 

VIDEOS

$1,000

Tribal Languages

$125

 

MAPS

 
     

01   General: Political Maps and Atlas

$60

Language subtotal

$1,445

 

02   Road and Tourist Maps

$60

     

03   Topographical Maps

$60

     

04   Geological and Soil Maps

$60

     

05   Hydrographic and Hydrological Maps

$60

     

06   Thematic Maps

$60

     

 

$360

         
     

India subtotal

$4,765

 

Worksheet
Total Estimated Cost by Language Selected:

Language Cost of monographs Cost of Serials
BENGALI   
GUJARATI   
HINDI   
KANNADA   
MALAYALAM   
MARATHI   
ORIYA   
PANJABI   
SANSKRIT   
TAMIL   
TELUGU   
URDU   
Total Cost:   



. Library of Congress
Comments: New Delhi Office (September 15, 2008)