INDORE: Once humming with activities, a glorious landmark of the city appears to be moving towards fadeout time. The fifty-year-oldDevi Ahilya Government Library looks set to lose its way into a maze of books yellowing with age. Some of students TOI talked to, minced no words about library's "failure" to keep pace with the changing reading taste of students.
Renowned poet and a retired principal of Gujrati College Dr Saroj Kumar said library is not been keeping up to expectations of the people of the city. Thousands of books have yet to be sorted out and are just lying on rack in unkempt condition. Moreover, the place which was earlier allotted for research purpose has now been clubbed with the newspaper reading space. This has caused a lot of inconvenience to the people who want to do serious reading, he added.
There are people like Priyanka Bhende, an engineering student, who says that she is not aware of the government library.
"I usually purchase and get books issued from private libraries in Palasia, I never knew that a government library existed in Indore." Bhagyashree Joshi, a student from Renaissance College, says, "I strongly believe that the public library should stock books of youths' choice." She finds the stuff at Devi Ahilya government library "boring". With e-libraries gaining popularity, the demand for the government library has taken a beating.
Dr Jawahar Choudhry, an avid reader and visitor to the Devi Ahilya government library, who has seen the development of the library for the past many years said, "Students who are interested in reading books of different genre should provide the library a list of books that they want to be stocked, so that they can be made available."
G D Agrawal, the regional librarian of Devi Ahilya Government library says, "Our library is full of books of different types. The new generation does not visit the library and so is not aware about the books that are available here." The library has a collection of around 70,000 books of almost every subject catering to almost every class of the society, he said.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/Devi-Ahilya-library-fails-to-hit-the-high-points/articleshow/13881332.cms
Renowned poet and a retired principal of Gujrati College Dr Saroj Kumar said library is not been keeping up to expectations of the people of the city. Thousands of books have yet to be sorted out and are just lying on rack in unkempt condition. Moreover, the place which was earlier allotted for research purpose has now been clubbed with the newspaper reading space. This has caused a lot of inconvenience to the people who want to do serious reading, he added.
There are people like Priyanka Bhende, an engineering student, who says that she is not aware of the government library.
"I usually purchase and get books issued from private libraries in Palasia, I never knew that a government library existed in Indore." Bhagyashree Joshi, a student from Renaissance College, says, "I strongly believe that the public library should stock books of youths' choice." She finds the stuff at Devi Ahilya government library "boring". With e-libraries gaining popularity, the demand for the government library has taken a beating.
Dr Jawahar Choudhry, an avid reader and visitor to the Devi Ahilya government library, who has seen the development of the library for the past many years said, "Students who are interested in reading books of different genre should provide the library a list of books that they want to be stocked, so that they can be made available."
G D Agrawal, the regional librarian of Devi Ahilya Government library says, "Our library is full of books of different types. The new generation does not visit the library and so is not aware about the books that are available here." The library has a collection of around 70,000 books of almost every subject catering to almost every class of the society, he said.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/Devi-Ahilya-library-fails-to-hit-the-high-points/articleshow/13881332.cms
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