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During
the previous year the library organised various activities for
children with a view to inculcate their interest in the use of
libraries and reading habits. Activities like paper reading
quiz,reference hunting,slogan writing, poem recitation etc. were
organised to encourage children for creative thinking, freedom of
expression and opening up their minds for new ideas. However, for all
these activities, students from various schools used to come to the
library premises for participation. Most of the children are from
public, model and urban schools, who
given their background, are generally more articulate and less
inhibitive in public participation.. Those who have equally creative
minds but feel shy or lack
facilities to participate in such activities either because
of location of schools or due to certain disadvantages, remain
outside the ambit of our activities.
These
children invariably are in ordinary government schools, in
rural and slum areas. This year the Central State Library
outreached such student by organising activities at their
place, in the spirit of libraries moving to users door. We
covered large number of disadvantage children compared to the
one who have been participating by coming to the library.
However, it may be mentioned that it does not
not affect adversely the children who love to participate in
ther activities organised by the libraracy at
its beautiful premises.
Professional
/ Academic Interactive Programme
Interaction
between the academic and the professionals of library and
information services has become imperative keeping in view the
changing scenario. To bring them together on one platform and share
one’s experiences and expertise, the latest advances in this field
and the application of latest information technology is done though
professional academic interactive programme.
This programme is also extended to the students of library
and information science of government polytechnic college Chandigarh.
Modernisation
& Computerisation
The
library is committed to modernisation of its operation through proper
mix of computerisation and net working. The CSL is the first public
library in the north-west region to be fully computerised. The
Education Department of Chandigarh liberally sanctioned funds to
purchase computer used for networking of all sections in the CSL.
The National Informatic Centre(NIC), Government of India, provided
technical input for the networking of various sections and tailored
the Teclib software used in the system for all housekeeping
activities of the library. This
implies that all the sections of the library are linked with
computer terminals including the facilities available for general
public use in circulation, reference and children sections
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English
language books are completely computerised. Issue/ return of books
is now handled through terminal, which also keeps track of the
overdue books and reminding readers to return these pomptly. Issue
of duplicate membership cards, cancellation and refund of security
are also being handled on computers lines.
The
computers are also used for
administrative purpose, library management and preparation of
reports. The office
prepares pay bills and other financial statements
and our future
plan is to computerise the total office record. On several occasions
bibliographies are made on a specific subject.
Serial
Database
A step in the computerisation in all the spheres of library
activities in the serial database of the library has been developed.
Indexing of the latest relevant serial article has started which can
be retrived without loss of time.
Hindi
& Punjabi Database
Earlier the books only in the English language were put in
the computer database. During the year Hindi and Punjabi language
books databse has been developed, Thus completing the whole library
inventory on the computer.
World
Book Day
World
book day is celebrated every year on 23rd April.
Central State Library celebrated the day this year in an unusual
way i.e by taking the library to six schools in rural areas along
with books and other reading material in mobile van. About 2000
books and 200 children magazines have been donated to different
schools and colleges.
Children's
Day Celebrations
On 14th November, the birthday of Jawahar lal Nehru,
India’s first Prime Minister is celebrated as children’s day in the
country. For the immense love for children, he was called Chacha
Nehru. The whole week from 14th to
20th November is celebrated as book week all over
the country. This reflects the keen interest Nehru has in reading
books, which not only amuses a person, but trains one’s mind,
instructs and brings to us the experience and thoughts of others. He
tried to imbibe this
sprit in children by writing books for them and reading stories to
others. Children Day cum book week was celebrated in the library
from Nov.13-25 2000. Book
exhibition specially meant for children upto the age of 16 years
were held in the library which was open for two weeks General book
of interest for adults
and senior citizens were also displayed.3
Catching
the Latest
To update oneself regarding the latest developments we need to
interact with professionals from different places and institutions.
A national seminar was organised by RRRLF in Delhi on 15th
and 16th Feb.where librarians from all corners of India
had converged and it was a good experience of learning the new
techniques and procedure adopted
to make the services more effective and efficient. A paper was also
presented in the seminar which will be published in the journal of
RRRLF.
Celebration
of Van Mahotsava
Trees are sources of life which cleans the polluted atmosphere and
bring comfort to the people, enjoying the shade in hot summer
months. Becides they are a source of fuel and also a source of fuel
also in July, Central State Library celebrated Van Mahotsava by
planting trees of neem etc in the library campus.The guest of honour
was our respected Advisor to the Governor ms Vineeta Rai IAS.Besides
her many others also planted the trees.
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