Giving a holistic aspect to public libraries @ Public libraries to be re-invented as community hubs
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, June 26
The public library movement in India
probably started with our ancient education centres in Taxila and Nalanda,
where valuable manuscripts became a source for modern scriptures and books.
Ever since public libraries have been
re-invented and re-established as significant community hubs. Until the 21st
century, when digitalisation pushed these learning centres to the background,
the new initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the Bill
and Linda Gates Foundation aims to re-invent public libraries as knowledge and
community hubs.
The Indian Public Library movement, an
impact group created by the foundation, aims to select 50 libraries across 23
states, develop infrastructure and give a holistic aspect to a public library.
And Prabhjot Sandhu, the librarian at the District Library, Amritsar, is one of
the chosen members of the monitoring impact group of the IPLM.
“With an agenda to make libraries
equipped for achieving sustainable community development, the movement has
recently been initiated with an aim to build a library ecosystem that extends
to urban and rural centres. I am part of the impact group and also the
International Network of Emerging Library Innovators (INELI), a global library
leadership capacity-building programme supported by the Global Libraries
Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” says Sandhu.
It means the chosen district library
will be provided infrastructural and staff support along with increasing the
public commitment towards the movement. “I am already working with the local
administration and volunteers to create awareness regarding the subject. We
have been provided computers, and more infrastructure support will follow, once
I share my ideas for transforming the library with them,” says Prabhjot. She
will soon be attending their annual meet to work on a framework for a policy to
build libraries.
Source | http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/amritsar/giving-a-holistic-aspect-to-public-libraries/428135.html
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