Archive for June, 2009

Efforts Of Dr’ S’ R’ Ranganathan For Public Library Legislation And Service

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

M’ Ranganathan Shiyali Ramamrita was a visionary who realized the importance of library legislation for the promotion and development of libraries in India’ It is very person totally dedicated to the cause of library and information science’ It is perfectly conscious of the role of libraries in improving education in any society’ He understands the impact of educational progress for the country’s development and the effectiveness and usefulness of libraries to promote education’

In 1924, Dr’ SR Ranganathan visited a public library during their stay in the United Kingdom’ These visits have enabled him to study the system, operation, funding and services from various libraries’ Accordingly, it is believed that the law library in a systematic, consistent and effective public library services’ Since public libraries are agencies of informal education, therefore, is mandatory for a welfare state to provide, maintain and develop a network of public libraries to meet the needs of the masses’ A public library is essential for the people? institution must be maintained with public funds to be collected more fairly’ Only government has the power and authority to levy and collect taxes through legal sanctions, the law library collection is essential for access to the library’ Therefore, it is clearly imperative that the government adopt a law library for the creation and functioning of a network of public libraries to meet the educational needs of the population in general’

Dr’ SR Ranganathan was the first person in India who have already thought about the need for a law library in 1925 after returning from England to India’ He has written one? Model law on libraries? and submitted for consideration at the First Conference on Education for all of Asia, held in Varanasi on December 27-30, 1930′ Conference participants were convinced of the benefits of the law and the opinion of Dr’ SR Ranganathan’ This? Model law on libraries? was published by the Library Association of Chennai, in 1936′ Later in Act fined twice, once in 1957 and again in 1972′ This model law library has been introduced as a bill to the House of Chennai in 1933, through Mr’ Bashir Ahmed Sayeed, a member of the General Assembly a passion for public libraries’

The main features of Dr’ SR Ranganathan? S Model Library Act are: –

Except Kerala Public Libraries Act of 1989, all laws that have occurred in India during the years 1948 to 1990, influence the pattern of the Public Libraries Act, prepared by Dr’ SR Ranganathan’

Dr’ SR Ranganathan made efforts to obtain the library of laws enacted by various states in India and have dreamed of a land of libraries’ We prepared a set of draft model law for several states’ Here is a list of them: –

It also prepared a draft model law of the Union Library in 1948 and remodeled in 1957′

India received the first public library of law by the tireless efforts of Dr’ SR Ranganathan’ For the first time the Public Library Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of Madras in 1948′ There is an interesting story behind the success of the collection of the Library Bill approved at the third attempt, in 1946, although the two previous attempts had failed’ The first attempt was made by Sayeed Ahmed Basher Janab when one presents the bill to the Legislative Assembly of Madras in 1933, but could not get through the Legislative Assembly of Madras was dissolved in 1935′ A second attempt was made in 1938, but after World War II began and the bill was not approved’ In 1946, Mr’ Chettiar Avinashalingam, who was a former student of Dr’ SR Ranganathan, became the Minister of Education in the State of Madras’ One day, Dr SR Ranganathan had a copy of the template from the Law Library and met with the minister in his home after his usual morning walk’ The minister was surprised to see her son? Guru? early in the morning and asked the purpose of your visit’ Dr SR Ranganathan had responded to his request? Gurudakshina?’ When the Minister undertook to provide the same, Dr’ SR Ranganathan received a copy of the Model Law and expressed his desire to do so in a law passed during his tenure as minister’ Mr’ Chettiar Avinashalingam pilot Bill and enacted in 1948′

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Public Librarie | No Comments »

The construction of a respectable Audio Book Library

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

An impressive library of audio is easy to build with Internet technology’ You can find almost any book you want in audio format for a price or, in some cases even free’ It is ideal for those who live on a budget but still needs a fascinating and educational to hear the car for long trips’ You can get your favorite book in MP3 format from a website or directly from the company on a CD or cassette’ However, you can easily create a library of audio books with a variety of different types of books’

You can fill your audio book from the library with books from a variety of categories and genres’ Many people have a library full of audio books that Christians can listen to the motivation and inspiration in their daily lives’ The Christian is a great selection of books, including translations of the Bible and the recent popular novel series Left Behind’ Others enjoy the books that focus on Christian education popular Bible stories or stories to add to the exercise of their faith’ Other classics in business and audio selections of fiction’

Parents will appreciate the wide selection of audio books children will appreciate’ You can find any book format for children who can hear the audio of the long car rides or instead of watching television’ Your children can listen to a series of fairy tales or funny stories and books that educate and teach important life lessons’ Imagine the excitement of children and to listen to The Chronicles of Narnia using your imagination instead of watching on the TV screen’ Other exciting stories take on a new quality of the popular imagination, where the audio books’ Children are sure to develop a more vivid imagination when parents expose them to this form of audio entertainment’

You can compose your library of audio compact discs or cassettes’ Or if you prefer, you can save hundreds of pounds on your hard drive or portable media player device’ Même si vous avez sur votre ordinateur, you can transfer it on a support that you puissiez papier pour l’emporter avec vous avez une ou de vos fichiers Sauvegarde Sauvegarde sur CD’ The books of all sizes are rapidly gaining popularity due to lack of interest today in the music and radio talk shows’ The fact is that people prefer to listen to the latest Stephen King Roman instead of the new Britney Spears song or banal policy experts who are flooding the airwaves’

The desire to build an impressive library of audio books are increasingly popular around the world busy’ The New York Public Library has joined the trend, adding hundreds of books available in digital download formats for members and visitors to your website’ You can check in any library of audio books, simply visit the website or you can go into the building if you live in the region’ It seems that the library’s audio book industry is here to stay as an alternative to the teaching of other forms of media that have invaded our world’

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Public Librarie | No Comments »

Genealogy Library – Tips for effective research trips to the library

Friday, June 26th, 2009

If you search your genealogy, for any length of time, made a trip to the local, county or state library in hopes of finding their ancestors in some books on dusty shelves’ Maybe achieved – perhaps you were not’ The library can be difficult to navigate if you have not spent much time studying at a time’ I am here to give you some tips on how to make the most of your trip to the library’

1′ Start your journey to the library at home! Hop into the library and Internet search site’ It is possible that the catalog is available online’ Use this to your advantage’ You can save much time if you have what the research books and records are available in advance’ This is especially true if you are planning to travel out of town to the library which is near where your ancestors lived’ Make a list of resources you want to view in the library’ Genealogy could also have their own special collection room, located on the site of the library’ Do not forget to check your local library, a library, a library or the state of the site’ Everyone has different resources available’

2′ Do not try to do too much in one visit’ Could be easily moved, especially if traveling to the state of the library has many resources’ Make a plan before you go and list exactly what documents you want to find’ Maybe for your first trip to focus on a family or branch’ Or maybe you want to find marriage records in microfilm’ Try to stick to your list and not to turn on the road’ You can end up wasting your days in the library and come home with as much information as you have, as they were processed out of the wild goose!

3′ Searching for unique sources of information: Do you want to use the library, mainly for the genealogy of these unique documents that you will not find anywhere else online, or can not find free on the Internet’ For example, the first meeting of the settlers in May collections are available’ As a general rule, the local historical society worked to collect information, such as artifacts, photographs, diaries, etc, the first inhabitants of the region’ Many times these items are available so you can see in the library or archive’

Also, check out the obituaries in the newspaper collection’ There are many online ads of death, but certainly not all’ Most people have to dig through the library’s collection to find newspaper obituaries of their ancestors’ You can find the possibility that someone has created an index, too’

Another unique type of library resources is a history book of the county’ Almost all countries have some form of written history in the late 19th century or early 20th century’ This was popular during this time’ The texts are generally historical photographs, maps, biographies and local citizens’ Often, these books have not created an index’ Sometimes, an index has been created since then to help researchers, so you need to check’ Otherwise, you have a lot of pages to go to find your ancestors!

City directories are another resource library and the genealogy of a great way to keep these ancestors who seem to be absent from the census’ They are a great resource, because often you can get an actual address of your ancestors and their profession’ You can also discover their neighbors, who were – perhaps they lived close to other parents’

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Public Librarie | No Comments »

Building – Portsmouth NH Public Library

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Have you visited the new library yet? If you have not, you probably will not benefit from a large library and you will know exactly what a wonderful addition to the library of Portsmouth’ I realized for the first time in April 2007 and quickly became a “heavy users” of the vast collection of books, CD to DVD’

The original is in the Library 8 Islington Street and opened in 1896′ One hundred and ten years later, the new library opened its doors at 175 Parrott Avenue in December 2006′ The new library has more than 38,000 square feet state of the art space’ A bright, light and air space very comfortable plush chairs to enjoy a magazine or a newspaper and work areas to focus on their projects’ Wireless internet is available throughout’

It was designed as a “green” construction’ Optimization of energy performance above 32′5%, there are views in 90% of the space, reducing light pollution, light of day in 75% of the space, reducing the use of water and water scenery’ Local and regional materials were used in 20% of the building’ Low emission materials were used, whether through painting, carpet and composite wood’ An interesting fact is the first word is only 10′5 meters above sea level

Upon entering the library, it is difficult to lose the freedom Polo Eagle c’1824 hung in the main staircase of the time capsule’ It was originally carved in the top of the Liberty Pole’ This center is the successor to the original pole was erected in 1766 in the Stamp Act’ In 1977, it was decided that the eagle had become too fragile to stay outside and moved inside the library’ The current release of their own stick and an eagle is on the street in front of Marcy Strawbery Banke’ The eagle is carved in wood and covered with gold leaf’ It is believed that the eagle was carved by Laban Beecher (1805-1876) A Boston sculptor of wood that had come to Portsmouth to sculpture in the sloop of war by the Navy of Concord’ Mr’ Beecher would have been 19 years old when the eagle carved’ It is assumed that only the eagle sculpted car is the only sculptor in the region at the time’

Visit the Special Collections room in search of historic Portsmouth’ The Reference Department is always happy to be of assistance’ Located on the second floor’ The hall has a large portrait of Celia Laighton Thaxted (1835-1894) was painted by Emil Otto Grundmann (German, 1844-1890), was the first Head of the School of the Museum of Fine – Arts in Boston’ Celia Laighton Thaxted was an author, poet, painter and gardener’ He spent most of his life living on the islands of Shoals’ He directed the Appledore Hotel and hosted many exhibitions on 19th-century luminaries, artistic and literary, including Hawthorne, Emerson, and Twain’ His son, Karl Thaxted, donated the portrait to the library in 1896′

The youth wing offers a Teen Room, Sun Room, Board of Audit and activity room’ Several youth-oriented computer use’ A beautiful collection of children’s games, videos and DVDs are housed here’

You can browse the catalog for your home computer by going to www’cityofportsmouth’com / library’ Thanks to the Internet, you can search the catalog, see what they have borrowed, renew books, audio cassettes and VHS, reserve a book and download a wide variety of audio books’

What can we borrow from the library: It’s more than just books!

Music CD – The collection is constantly growing and you can borrow up to 5 discs for two weeks

VHS – Una vasta red, asistir y ahora puede tener el mayor número de cintas de VHS que desea, mantenerlos durante dos semanas e incluso a renovar! Monday is the area of non-fiction, that gives the band a tour of the region’

DVD – Take 5 for a week’ These can not be renewed, but there are a large group of films, documentaries and television programs’

Books on tape and CD – I really enjoy working through the books on CD in the library’ A good way to use time to their staff and other school activities’ Car rides and work days just seem to fly into the audience with a good story’

There is more to the Portsmouth Public Library’ It is certainly a meeting place’ Various activities and groups meet regularly’ On Saturday morning in 1012, is a game of Mah Jong happens in coffee’ Every Tuesday from 7-8:45 pm World War II, meets a group discussion in the Council Chamber MacLeod’ At 7 pm on Monday and Tuesday at 1pm, it is time for discussions of books for adults’ You can find a list of books that will be candidates at the reception’

Film Series is a part of the library scene’ Thursday evening at 7 pm the films are presented in the Levenson Room on the first floor meeting’ Before, it is “Rape” (2007) with Chris Cooper and Laura Linney and “Waitress” (2007), with Keri Russell and Andy Griffith’ The Black Film Series meets Wednesdays at 1pm’ Recent films include “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950) directed by John Huston and Sterling Hayden and “In a lonely place” (1950) directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart’

More than 12,000 residents of Portsmouth to borrow books and library’ And if you’re from out of town, you can join too’ Currently, the annual fee year is just $ 75 or join for six months for $ 40′

9-9 Hours are Monday-Thursday 9-5:30 Friday and Saturday, 9-5

Portsmouth Public Library

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Public Librarie | No Comments »

The formation of public libraries in the United Kingdom

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Public libraries Public libraries in British first established by Act of the Museum of Canterbury in 1847, Warrington, in 1848, and in 1850 in Salford’ A library service began in Brighton in 1850 by a private act, which was directed by William Ewart, who had to work hard to implement in the context of such strong opposition’

1850 Public Libraries Act empowered county councils in England and Wales with a population of 10,000 at a rate Halfpenny spent in libraries and museums, thereby establishing a principle, but to impose severe restrictions on the practice’ In 1855, the rate increased to one hundred people and the ceiling was reduced to 5000, 1866, the rate of population has been deleted’ Norwich was the first authority to approve the law in 1850, but did not provide the service until 1857′

The first library was opened under the law was in 1850 in Winchester, which opened its first public library in 1851′ The following year, a Manchester opened its first public library, next to Liverpool a library open’ And then, by a special law had been opened in libraries, Sheffield and Birmingham’ From 1857 to 1885, the only public library in London has been Santa Margarita and San Juan, located in Westminster’ Another was opened in 1885 in Wandsworth’

Before 1870, only 48 libraries have been opened, most of which were in England, only a small number have been opened in Scotland and Wales’ Growth of the library became faster between 1870 and 1900, 400 libraries have been established’ In 1913 the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie a $ 2 million for the creation of public libraries, provided that local authorities and the site maintenance schedule’

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Public Librarie | No Comments »

A Public Library System trashing used books

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Recently, in February this year, in fact, a public library system was found guilty and throwing garbage bags to study full of books used in their trash’ Several of these books are still in excellent condition and is not just one time or another event’

Public Library Knox County, which is sponsored by the taxes that are paid by residents and county, was studied recently by one of the local news channels in the state of Tennessee and the wrath of their research in a number of the Knox County residents’ Throughout the county, there are at least twenty public libraries and eighty percent of the libraries have been convicted for throwing a large amount of garbage bags of books every week’ Books that were recovered ranged from children’s books to textbooks to magazines, but more shocking is that some of the books that looked as if it was never opened’ All these books have been marked by the Library with the seal removed, indicating that it was no longer in your system’

The Knox County residents were outraged by the findings of this investigation because they believe that the book could have been invested in schools, nurseries, boys and girls clubs, centers for the elderly, or who may have sold at least depth for new books or computers for the libraries’ Several of these books were brought to the area of selling books to determine what would be its value, and most of the books that have received at least anywhere from seventy-five cents’ In fact, a book is a book about the biology of endangered species and has a value of twelve dollars, which is even more wrenching to make’

The director of the library has been questioned and a list of books that have been retrieved and presented to him some books, including the surprise’ His only comment was that the library system to a set of procedures and policies for several years and sometimes the books are to be rejected because of their age, wear’ He said he began to send each library published a list for approval before the sack of books’

Comments, policies and procedures by the director of the Knox County Library System and the general public are alarming’ I never thought in a country that has freedom of expression and there are many people who can not read and write that we would have a public library system selfish shed pounds’ If the library did not want more books and have not had time to process, so why not just give people entering the library on a daily basis? This is so barbaric! There are several major retailers of books that follow the books that can no longer sell to make room for new books, but have enough appreciation for them not to throw in the trash!

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Public Librarie | No Comments »