Friday, December 14, 2007

Creating a community of citizens to save the Library

This is about the save the British library in Tvm blog. It is important that interested citizens get together and brainstorm about what we can do. And do it soon. I have set up an online petition which has about 750 signatures already ( I put it up on Dec 10th). Mostly it is Techies as the message was spread through the Technopark intranet. I would like nontechies, literature, history, philosophy majors to sign it too. Also as many students and schoolchildren as possible. The idea initially was to close it on Dec 31st and send it to Mr. Rod Pryde, Director of British Council in Delhi who took this decision. However, as the Christmas vacations are approaching and things may shut down till abt Jan 6th, I am thinking of sending it on Dec 19th, 20th. The URL is :
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/bcl64lib/petition.html

I urge all of you who have not signed to sign it soon and also forward the URL to as many others as you may know. Many people don't know how to sign an online petition. So if you get their consent, just sign up for them.
Also it is important through this blog to create a community of citizens who will be ready to hold a town meeting with Mr. Pryde ASAP.
Thanks
Asha Gopinathan, Ph.D
IIITM-K
Technopark

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