The first donation to the library was the valuable and extensive collection on history, literature and oriental studies of late Arunachalam Padmanabha donated by his father Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam.
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It serves primarily the faculty of Arts.
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The University of Peradeniya library is a centrally-administered network of libraries in the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
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The entire facility was moved to Peradeniya in 1952, with the establishment of a new seven story building in the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya campus.
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