Library

Budget: Govt to set up National Digital Library for children, adolescents

A National Digital Library for children and adolescents will be set up for facilitating the availability of quality books across geographies, languages, genres and levels, and device agnostic accessibility, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Wednesday. In her Budget speech, she said states will be encouraged to set up physical libraries for them at panchayat and ward levels and provide infrastructure for accessing the National Digital Library resources. To build a culture of reading and to make up for pandemic-time learning loss, the National Book Trust, Children's Book Trust and other sources will be encouraged to provide and replenish non-curricular titles in regional languages and English to these physical libraries. "Collaboration with NGOs that work in literacy will also be a part of this initiative. To inculcate financial literacy, financial sector regulators and organizations will be encouraged to provide age-appropriate reading material to these libraries,"

UGC proposes plan to let students access libraries, labs in other colleges

Under this initiative, the educational institutions can allow students studying in other colleges or universities to use their laboratory, science room, computer lab, research, library, e-library

Internet connection, other digital facilities at all libraries in TN soon

At present, only the Anna Centenary library has a digital option with more than 3,000 books

Jamtara becomes country's first district with library in every village

A Janta Darbar was initially organised by the district administration to know the problems of the villagers in Changidih Panchayat

Govt needs to ensure every school, college has library, playground: CJI

Justice Ramana said book-reading is a good habit as it would leave an imprint in minds while playing sports would increase sporting spirit among children

Hit by pandemic, libraries across cities are turning to a digital chapter

Across cities, these institutes are either struggling to cope or looking to slowly reinvent themselves

Himachal to Jharkhand, a community library project is bridging divides

Project Paper Bridge is not only creating an alternative space for learning and spark conversations among the community members, but also promoting multi-culturalism

Story in numbers: The 'poor' state of public libraries in India

There is one rural library for every 11,500 people, and one urban library for over 80,000 people

The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news

Evidence exists of library instruction dating back to the 1820s at Harvard University