Meeting 13/04/2008

The following were discussed at our meeting on 13/04/2008 at the press club.

1. The role of the YMCA . The forum requested the Ymca to cooperate in reviving the library, by letting the library continue in the present premises. It was pointed out that the YMCA could win enormous goodwill by this, from the people of Trivandrum.
2. The importance of retaining the present staff was stressed. Procedures for this was discussed.
   
3. Books becoming obsolete and the need to update the collection constantly. Members raised the concern that subsrciptions to International magazines and online journals may not be available.
4. The library should be resurrected as soon as possible and should be back to its previous state this year itself.
5. The status of the govt intervention
6. The political will needed to achieve this . C.M , Ministers and Govt Secys are very keen.
7. The Land revenue commissioner is to hear the case about the present building. This was discussed. Possibilities of becoming a party to this was discussed. Members suggested filing a PIL in the high court.
8. The legal implications of the YMCA subleasing the building to the BC.
9. Organising a human chain or a candle light protest near the library
10. Corporate sponsorships for the campaign were discussed
    
11. International assistance for the new library (U.N, NLBS etc)
12. The forum agreed that the library needs to be restarted immediately. Till the dispute between the ymca and the govt is resolved, the new library could start preliminary operations, like stock taking , cataloguing, barcoding etc. A temporary location for this needs to be identified. Suggested locations were :the govt rest house (where the books are stored now), the pwd guest house, Park view, some heritage buildings near the west fort etc. This would only be a temporary location - the old building is still the place where we want the library to be run.
    
13. Members could offer voluntary service to the govt to help set up and run the library in its initial phase.
14. Possibility of having a citizen's charter for the new library was discussed.
15. The forum decided to prepare a proposal to submit to the CM for the govt's consideration. This would help the govt to set up the library and would enable the views of the library members to be considered when the new library is formed.
    
16. The adhoc executive committee was further expanded . A delegation to visit the C.M would be formed from this committee.
17. A group of 3 members from the executive committee will identify possible locations and a group of 9 members will draft the proposal /project report.
18. The list of possible temporary locations would be identified by April 17th and the proposal would be drafted by April 25th.
    

The exec committee now has the following members:

P.Radhakrishnan (President)

Dr C.Jayan (V.P)

K.Padmakumar

P. Vijayakumar

K.M Joseph

George Koruth (Sec)

Krishnamohan (Sec)
Tarun Thomas Abraham

S.A Rehman

Abraham Pathircikan

Hariharan . N
M.Varadarajan

Latha Kurien Rajeev

P.C Chacko

P.B.Subhas Chand

Velappan Nair

Sheeba R

Oommen K Oommen

The group to identify possible temporary locations

K.M Joseph

P.B.Subhas Chand

Abraham Pathirickan

A group was formed to prepare a project report to help set up the new library. This would be submitted to the C.M for the Govt's consideration.

P. Radhakrishnan

Dr C Jayan

K Padmakumar

P Vijayakumar

K.M Joseph
M.Varadarajan

Hariharan . N

Latha Kurien Rajeev
P.B.Subhas Chand

Krishnamohan