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PANAJI
Art and Culture minister Govind Gaude on Thursday underscored the role of librarians to create reading habit among citizens, especially the young.
Gaude said books play important role in the quality of education of students and the library and librarians are an integral part of it.
A librarian is the best guide of an amateur reader. By adhering to principles set by Dr SR Ranganathan, librarians should work to imbibe reading culture in people,
he added.
While stating that Goa’s Central Library is among the best 50 libraries in the world and among first five libraries in Asia, Gaude appealed to the staff to strive to make it the number one library in the country and Asia. He assured that government will give all necessary infrastructure for setting up libraries in villages.
The Minister was speaking at the Librarian’s Day function on Thursday at the Krishnadas Shyama Goa State Library.
Famous mathematician and librarian Dr S R Ranganathan is known as “Father of Library Science in India”. August 12 is his birth anniversary and is observed as Librarian’s Day in the country.
‘Goa- Library and Information Science Convention 2018 (GOA-LIS)’, with the theme ‘Reshaping of Libraries with Emerging Global Technology and Trends for Libraries’ was also organized wherein 21 librarians from Goa and other states presented research papers.
Director of Art and Culture Gurudas Pilarnkar and the Curator of Central library Carlos Fernandes were present as were librarians from all colleges, government town librarires and village and municipality library staff.
Director Gurudas Pilarnkar said the research papers that will be presented here will help us to improve the functioning of the library.
The Minister later released the ‘Annual Report 2018 of State Central Library’ and four other books namely ‘West Cost Time’- compiled by Dr. Carlos Fernandes and Kanaka Swamy, ‘Tiatr Machi-Vol. II’ compiled by Dr. Carlos Fernandes, Prashant Phadte and Vinda Gadekar, ‘O GLOBO- Periodical Alphabetical Article Index (1968-1977) compiled by Smt. Maria Ana Paiva and Smt. Sneha SP Malkarnekar and ‘Goa-LIS 2018’ peer research paper magazine.
