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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 .
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.
School Librarian’s Seminar
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A one day seminar
for the school librarians of the tricity was organised on the theme
“Electonic media and the declining reding habits” on Nov
10,2008. Fifty five librarians from the different schools of the
tricity of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali participated. They were
given tips how to promote/inculcate reading habits among children.
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Children's Day Celebrations
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Slogan writing,
Book mark making, Jr school quiz, Book and Reference hunting and Senior
school Quiz were the events organised
by the Library to mark Children’s Day celebration on Nov 10-12,
2008. Large number of students participated in the events. To encourage
the children the prizes were also distributed to the best participants
Springfest-09
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. April 13- 16 was festivity time at the Library.
Sprigfest-09 was organised during this time. Four day of Sprigfest
marked the workshop on Creative Writting, Spoken English, Communicatin
Skills, storytelling and poetry
recitation competitions.Children of diffrent age group partcipated in
the four day festival
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