Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that a school library has been opened on April 15, 2007 by Shri Gade Vinod Reddy garu, Chairman of Nalgonga Zilla Granthalaya Samstha in Sri Vidyanikethan High School, Mothkur village/mandal, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. Established in 1996 and located in a backward region of Telangana, SVHS is a Telugu medium school under private management offering facilities for education for Sishu, Class 1 to 10. Presently, it has a strength of 10 staff members and around 275 students. SVHS Library became a reality through voluntary donations from many sources: 1) Mr. Mahender, Correspondent of SVHS donated his personal collection of around 500 books to SVHS Library. 2) Mr. Anumula Srinivas, Founder President of Gundrampally Library and Information Centre (GLIC), Gundrampally, Nalgonda district, presented around 350 books to SVHS Library. Mr. Srinivas has been instrumental in developing GLIC as a model village library. He also announced life subscription to Chandamama magazine, the most popular children’s monthly in Telugu for SVHS Library. 3) An anonymous donation of Rs.5000 helped in the purchase of two glass-covered library racks. 4) Shri S.N. Chary, Local reporter of Eenadu announced a donation of Rs.1000 for the purchase of books. We are happy to inform all LIS professionals that Mr. Mahender had agreed -- to provide free library service to students as recommended in the UNESCO School Library Manifesto. --to keep the books freely available to students through open access. --to issue one book per student. --not to lock books in racks. --to allot at least one period per week for library. We appeal to all library lovers to extend their support in strengthening SVHS Library. Our plans are: --to develop a good collection of reference books and children’s books in Telugu. --to provide a computer system --to introduce Internet service --to develop a collection of educational non-book materials (CD-ROM, VCD, DVD, etc.) Please send your donations to: Shri Mahender Correspondent Sri Vidyanikethan High School Mothkur Village/Mandal Nalgonda District 508 277 Andhra Pradesh Mobile: 99850 83859 Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support to library development. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.