pune nearly 18000 books from the british library that went digital last year have been donated to the jaykar library in savitribai phule pune university as many as 14000 books have already been given and students will now be able to read these books ranging from social science languages religion technology and other topics and genresregistrar prafulla pawar said the jaykar library is a good resource for students it has lakhs of books and the 18000 books from british library will add more valueit was established as the british council library in 1960 to extend the best of education arts and culture from britian in pune readers can now access books from anywhere and any time for an unlimited periodthe british library introduced puneites to english literature and was stationed on fergusson college road till 2017 before shifting to another place in shivajinagarantonius raghubansie director of learning services british council india said the collection spanning genres such as management nonfiction and fiction will cater to the students academic and leisure readingwe are delighted that nearly 18000 titles from our library will now be housed on the sppu campus allowing us to continue being a part of their undergraduate and graduate learners experience he addedtheir digital library is bringing the best of uk education arts and culture to a much larger audience online we have invested in increasing and strengthening our digital offer so that our customers can access a vast range of educational and entertainment resources raghubansie added