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The Fourth Indian Library Congress volition beryllium held successful Chennai connected February 16 and 17 astatine Anna Centenary Library successful Kotturpuram.
Before Chennai, the Indian Library Congress was organised successful Kerala, Bengaluru and New Delhi with an purpose to fortify libraries which assistance the mediocre and marginalised sections of society.
A brochure for the lawsuit was released connected Sunday. While speaking astatine the event, DMK MP P. Wilson said that during the event, radical would deliberate connected the value of libraries and however it benefited radical of each ages. “In the property of integer media, misinformation and endless noise, libraries are the past large antiauthoritarian institutions wherever cognition is free, equal, and dignified. Libraries softly alteration lives without making noise. In societies marked by inequality, this relation becomes adjacent much important,” helium said.
Mr. Wilson said, Tamil Nadu had a agelong and arrogant past of treating libraries arsenic tools for societal advancement and the State contiguous had implicit 4,500 nationalist libraries, serving astir 1 crore readers each twelvemonth with escaped access, helium said. “The 4th Indian Library Congress invites america to deliberation astir the aboriginal of these spaces and reminds america that libraries are not conscionable luxuries. They are nationalist spaces that beryllium to everyone,” helium added.
Former Madras High Court Judge K. Chandru said, determination were efforts to person the Anna Centenary Library into a hospital. Today, the room sees a footfall of 10,000 people. School Education Secretary B. Chandra Mohan said, with changing times, libraries are being reimagined and repositioned arsenic a hub for learning.
General Convenor, Indian Library Congress, Chennai, and MP V.Sivadasan said that astir 500 delegates would be the Indian Library Congress, and the delegates would sermon the value of libraries and the caller aboriginal task of room movement.
School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, N. Ram, Director, The Hindu Group, Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan, Mr. Chandru, elder administrators, writers, academics, activists and galore others volition enactment successful the event.
