(11 Sep 2021) In the heart of Northwest Delhi’s Karala village is an airy room where young women have been spending their days for the last week, studying in a space of their own in the first women’s only library in the district. “This is a community driven project. They have given us the…
(29 Sep 2021) A case between three academic publishers and the creator of pirate website Sci-Hub is currently being fought in the Delhi High Court. In 2015, Elsevier had first filed a lawsuit against her in a US court, which found her liable for wilful copyright infringement and entered a permanent injunction against her and…
(2 Aug 2021) News from India: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared 24 “self-styled” institutes fake and found two more in violation of norms, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday. Pradhan made the statement in response to a written question in Lok Sabha. “Based on the complaints received from the students, parents,…
(12 Jun 2021) The historical Hardayal Municipal Public Library was reopened in Chandni Chowk in Delhi after months of efforts to bring back its erstwhile stature of being a place to access rare collections of books and manuscripts. Developed way back in 1862, the library has 150,000 books, 8,000 of which are rare texts…
(17 May 2021) A full-fledged library for Covid patients, who otherwise get confined to their bed for almost two weeks without having any scope for entertainment, has been set up by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC). With their movement restricted due to health issues and protocols, the inmates of this facility are now…
(3 Mar 2021) St Agnes College has become the first college under Mangalore University, to tag library books with RFIDs. Over 62,000 books have been tagged. Pegged at a cost of Rs 20 lakh, the new RFID tag will replace the old bar code system at the college library. Read more from the original…
(12 Feb 2021) India’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and involvement in ‘vaccine diplomacy’ around the world has led to a significant boost in health spending and scientific research, announced in this year’s budget in the midst of the pandemic. It also includes first-time funding for a proposed overarching research funding organisation which will change…
(5 Feb 2021) Infamous as India’s ‘phishing capital’, Jharkhand’s tiny Jamtara district now has 45 public libraries diverting youth away from cybercrime. A library movement developed in a short span of time in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district is receiving a steady flow of students and helping them turn a new page. The district love for books…
(27 Jan 2021) A children’s library on a boat was launched in Kolkata on Republic Day, a first-of-a-kind initiative. Children will be able to choose from a selection of 500 titles in English and Bengali on the Young Readers’ Boat Library, an official said on Tuesday. The idea behind the boat library is that one…
(12 Jan 2021) News from India: The Department of Public Libraries has decided to promote community libraries in small residential clusters in urban centres and the first such library was declared open at an apartment complex in Tiruchi last week. Under the initiative, local communities comprising residents of an apartment or gated communities can…