[LIS-Forum] Mobile Book Shop in Hyderabad

[Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy]

News from THe Hindu dated 29th May 2011
Books on wheels

Staff Reporter
Mobile stall to drive to different areas


Varied fare: Visitors going through the newly launched mobile library
on Saturday.
HYDERABAD: When was the last time you visited a library or borrowed a
book from library?

Considering the inconvenience of visiting a library or buying a book
from a book stall, Sahitya Bharathi Book Shop, Chikkadpally has
launched its ‘Book on wheels', a mobile book stall offering wide
variety of books in the city. Carrying novels, short stories books,
biographies, devotional books etc, the van will travel in different
residential colonies and offer books for sale. Readers can pick their
books and even avail ten per cent discount on every purchase, says D.
Samba Siva Rao of Sahitya Bharathi Book Shop. The objective is to
inculcate book reading among city dwellers, besides promoting Telugu
literature. Lot of effort has gone into selecting books to be offered
through this van. It carries about 500 books and some of them are rare
books, he says.

“Apart from selecting books, efforts were put in for designing the
van. Limca Book of Records winner K. Sudhakar, who is known for
designing and making cars with innovative ideas has designed the van,”
says Mr. Rao.

The mobile van was launched by well-known writer Yandamoori
Veerendranath at Sri Krishna Devaraya Andhra Basha Nilayam here on
Saturday.
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