Re: [LIS-Forum] School Library--Opportunities to Help--Update

Dear Professional Colleagues, Here's an update on the response so far: Prof. A.A.N. Raju, UGC Emeritus Professor (Retd), Osmania University: One year subscription to two children's magazines in Telugu. Mrs. Achala Munigal: One year subscription to Champak children's monthly plus donation of books. Dharma Vana Arboretum: Assurance of support Anonymous Donor: Rs.1000 Emesco, Visalandhra Publishing House and Annapurna Publications: Offered to provide books at a good discount. Our thanks to all the above for their support to this school library project. The number of books acquired has reached 75. Still we have to buy good reference titles such as dictionaries, atlases, GK books, encyclopaedias, etc. Any help is most welcome. Thank you Sincerely Prafulla --- On Sun, 11/1/09, prafulla tv wrote:

From: prafulla tv Subject: School Library--Opportunities to Help To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, nmlis@yahoogroups.com, iatlis@yahoogroups.com, oplib@yahoogroups.com, digilib_india@yahoogroups.com, corporatelibrarians@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, 11 January, 2009, 12:10 PM Dear Sir,

It is proposed to start a School Library in Government Primary School, near Urban Colony, Bhongir, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh on January 26, 2009. This co-ed school has 125 students studying Classes 1 to 5. These students belong to socially disadvantaged sections of the society. Most of their parents earn their livelihood working as labourers. A preliminary study was done to check about the viability of running a school library and we found enthusiastic response from the teachers serving this institution.

We hope to guide this library as a pilot project wherein the students would be managing and running the library on their own. A group of volunteers from the Organisation for Protection of Libraries (Andhra Pradesh)headed by Dr. Kishore (Librarian, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology) would train these students on simple techniques of accessioning, cataloguing and circulation of books.

We have already received donation of the following items for the establishment of this school library:

41 children's books worth Rs.900 Glass paned steel almirah with 5 shelves

Opportunities are still available to help the establishment of this school library on a firm footing. Particularly, we wish to have a well-chosen, core collection of children's books including encyclopaedias, magazines, etc. These children can read English and Telugu. We appeal for donation of children's books suitable to their age level. Donations in cash for the purchase of books and magazines are also welcome.

Thank you Sincerely

T.V. Prafulla Chandra Flat G3, Phase 4 Saptagiri Apartments Padmarao Nagar Secunderabad 500 025 Mobile: 93962 51106 Office: 040 2726 0930 Residence: 040 2750 5908

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