The Hindu, Sunday March 23, 2008
http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/23/stories/2008032358290300.htm
Officials on order from the high court, to audit the assets at the library were unable to do so, since the librarian/assistant librarian were not present to open the premises.
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Has the downward trend started?
I was at the BL today.
Actually, my daughter had been doing some project work there since morning using the BL reference and I went along at noon to collect her. You could almost see a sense of doom there and a deterioration in place already. The books were lying round like it never had been before and the staff smiled in a pathetic attempt at cheerfulness. There is one person on the staff with whom I had attended a study course once upon a time, and even he had no expression in his eyes. The readers except maybe the kids, looked like zombies...Is it all my perception? Or is it an inertness that comes from resignation that I saw there?
Later on I heard from my daughter that she couldnt find any books in its place, and asked me 'is it because they are closing down?"
What do I tell her? The last time I spoke to her on the topic she asked me with a lost look, "amma, where will do my projects from after February?"
Do we have an answer to give her?
Actually, my daughter had been doing some project work there since morning using the BL reference and I went along at noon to collect her. You could almost see a sense of doom there and a deterioration in place already. The books were lying round like it never had been before and the staff smiled in a pathetic attempt at cheerfulness. There is one person on the staff with whom I had attended a study course once upon a time, and even he had no expression in his eyes. The readers except maybe the kids, looked like zombies...Is it all my perception? Or is it an inertness that comes from resignation that I saw there?
Later on I heard from my daughter that she couldnt find any books in its place, and asked me 'is it because they are closing down?"
What do I tell her? The last time I spoke to her on the topic she asked me with a lost look, "amma, where will do my projects from after February?"
Do we have an answer to give her?
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