Mysore :

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) is celebrating the Librarians’ Day in a unique way. As a reach out activity of this year, the members of MyLISA visit schools and other institutions on August 12 and give a motivational lecture on ‘Reading Habits’ and ‘Library use’ to the children.

St. Joseph School, Jayalakshmipuram, Taralabalu Math School, T.K. Layout, Harividyalaya High School, Bogadi, Gangothri School, Manasagangtri, Sarada Vilas College, Krishnamurthy Puram, City Central Library, Sayyaji Rao Road, Good Shepard High School, JP Nagar, Sadhvidya High School, Ramavilas Road, Ideal Jawa Rotary School, JLB Road and other institutions are covered in the programme.

A manual on ‘Guide to setting up an open library in schools’ prepared exclusively for the day by Usha Mukunda, Bangalore, will also be circulated among these schools on August 12.

For more information, contact MyLISA Secretary and DOS Library & Information Science Associate Professor Dr. N.S. Harinarayana on Mob: 9741533380 or e-mail: ns.harinarayana@gmail.com

Librarians’ Day: It is Padmashree Dr. S.R.Ranganathan who brought professional status to librarianship in India. Born in Siyalli in in 1892, Ranganathan got educated in Mathematics and started his career as a lecturer in mathematics. In a dramatic turn of event in his career, he became university librarian at University of Madras in 1924. This was a blessing in disguise for Indian libraries. Unconvinced by the State of affairs in libraries in India, he got himself trained from University College, London. After coming back from there, he brought unparallel improvements in all facets of libraries. ‘Five laws of library science,’ ‘Prolegomena to library classification’ and ‘Colon classification’ are classics in library science education. His birth day August 12 is celebrated as “Librarians’ 

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / August 11th, 2014