Library Organisation
in India
Before considering how best to organise public
libraries in India, it may be useful to glance at the state of affairs and what
the Governments and the people have done in the progressive countries of the
west in this matter.
In the United Kingdom we can trace the desire of
the people to have free public libraries among them on a large scale to the
year 1850 when the Parliament was made to pass the first Library Act. Since
then about 20 other Acts came into existence and at the present day the
development of libraries is included in the general schemes for the advancement
of education and is guided by the Act of 1902 by which local education boards
are empowered to promote the general co-ordination of all forms of education
including Libraries.
The boroughs and parishes are authorised to collect
from the rate-payers... on the rateable value of an administrative area — with
power to fix a lower rate — for the purpose of maintaining free public
libraries within the limits of their respective jurisdictions.
The result is that almost every town and village
has a free public library of its own for the use of its inhabitants. In
addition to the municipal libraries, there are special acts of Parliament
affecting the large number of British libraries which are not supported out of
the rates.
Source | The Hindu | 23rd August 2019
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Master of Library & Information Science (NET
Qualified)
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