The Library with no members
What better place is there for a citizen to find books
to read, to absorb, to act on, than in a well-stocked public library? In
this bustling metropolis there is now a world-class public library that
faces the spectre of being shut down, shunted out, subverted.
The
Anna Centenary Library, established in 2010, has since been threatened
by closure, by conversion into a hospital, and by use of its public
space and auditorium for unrelated activities such as a wedding
reception, a result of what is apparently a political and administrative
tussle. That events have come to such a pass in Tamil Nadu is ironic,
for it was here that the first Public Libraries Act of independent India
was enacted in 1948.
Source: The Hindu
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