Free Libraries Network: Draft Policy for Strengthening Public Libraries in India

PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release: Ambedkar Jayanti Marks a Milestone: Release of Draft Policy for Strengthening Public Libraries in India by the Free Libraries Network5 PM, 13 April 2024, Press Club, New Delhi. [Delhi, April 3, 2024]: Commemorating the birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar, the FreeLibraries Network announces the release of a landmark draft policy… Read More Free Libraries Network: Draft Policy for Strengthening Public Libraries in India

10th April 2024 Dilip

American Public Libraries under Threat: Banning what Matters

REBECCA GORDON Of course, the all-American penchant for banning books didn’t begin in the Trump era. Just ask almost anyone who lived through the Red Scare days of the 1950s (not to speak of the first Red Scare of 1917-1920). But the last few years have seen a remarkable acceleration of attempts to keep certain… Read More American Public Libraries under Threat: Banning what Matters

14th February 202414th February 2024 Dilip

CHS library at JNU won’t be shifted

CHS library at JNU won’t be shifted, say professors CHS library at JNU won’t be shifted, say professors

11th August 2023 Dilip

The great libraries of Rome

Fabio Fernandes It’s around 200 CE, in Ephesus, an Aegean city of Greek roots, now a major hub of the Roman Empire. Meandering down marble-paved Curetes Street, a dweller is lost in the bustle of the town, procuring produce and wares in shops tucked beneath the colonnades, attending the public baths – even a conveniently… Read More The great libraries of Rome

10th August 20239th August 2023 Dilip

Arkansas GOP rep’s wife shredded for ‘swapping’ library books with Bibles

Arkansas Republican State Representative Stephen Meeks’ wife Jennifer Meeks is receiving backlash after setting out to replace free neighborhood books with Bibles, Newsweek reports. Faulkner County Coalition for Social Justice (FCCSJ) recently called out the congressman’s wife via Facebook, saying “she has been busy posting about the little free libraries across Faulkner County and the ‘group of leftist[s],… Read More Arkansas GOP rep’s wife shredded for ‘swapping’ library books with Bibles

9th August 2023 Dilip

Sri Lanka, thirty one years after: Burning of the Jaffna Public Library, May 1981

NB: Meanwhile the JNU History Centre collection, one of the most valuable in the country, is being dismantled by the authorities to make room for a new centre of Tamil studies. I am sure lovers of Tamil language and culture do not wish for the university’s history collection to be removed. This is nothing but… Read More Sri Lanka, thirty one years after: Burning of the Jaffna Public Library, May 1981

7th August 20237th August 2023 Dilip

Appeal & Signature Campaign to Save the Centre for Historical Studies Library in JNU

NB: The temptation of our day is to accept the intolerable, for fear of still worse to come: Hermann Rauschning, The Revolution of Nihilism (1939). DS This is an appeal to the national and global academic community at large, including JNU alumni as well as teachers’ associations, student bodies and individual professors and students across the world.… Read More Appeal & Signature Campaign to Save the Centre for Historical Studies Library in JNU

7th August 20237th August 2023 Dilip

First edition Shakespeare text from 1623 goes on display

A First Folio edition of William Shakespeare’s plays that was published in 1623 is being put on display. By Yasmin Rufo Guildhall Library will be showcasing the rare book as part of a celebration of 400 years since the book was published. Copies of the First Folio edition were sold for between 15 shillings and… Read More First edition Shakespeare text from 1623 goes on display

25th April 2023 Dilip

Bihar Sharif: The 113-year-old India library torched in a riot

By Faisal Mohammed Ali Ash, soot-stained walls, burnt furniture and charred pages: that’s all that remains of a 113-year-old madrassa library in India that once housed more than 4,500 books, including ancient manuscripts and sacred Islamic texts written in beautiful calligraphy. The library was part of the Madrassa Azizia – a well-known religious school in… Read More Bihar Sharif: The 113-year-old India library torched in a riot

23rd April 2023 Dilip

The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Papyrus by Irene Vallejo review – how books built the world What do you give the queen who has everything? When Mark Antony was wondering how to impress Cleopatra in the run-up to the battle of Actium in 31BC, he knew that jewellery would hardly cut it. The queen of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt… Read More The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

21st December 202221st December 2022 Dilip

After the truth-shower

Philosophy, history, literature, current affairs, and other stuff. Posted by Dilip Simeon

Tag: Libraries