National Librarians’ Day

Dear Friends,

August 12th is being celebrated as National Librarians’ Day in India, in remembrance of national professor of library science, Padmashree Dr S R Ranganathan (1892-1972), who had spearheaded library development in India.

I request you friends out there, if you are associated with any library in your region; be it public library or academic library, pay a visit to the library and appreciate the library professionals and their service to the emerging society in national development. If we support and recognize the public service organizations like libraries, we have more opportunities to affirm that libraries are change agents in educating the citizens in public life. In India, lot is to be accomplished, your appreciation and motivation of library services will go a long way to make awareness about the importance of information and library services to reach the unreached.

Thank you

"Librarians are very special people. Libraries are the mind and soul of their communities, and librarians are the mind and soul of the library. They are the caregivers of the world of the mind, the nurturers of dreams and the defenders of truth. Perhaps no other profession is so marked by the singular generosity of its practitioners."