'librarians should be reader-friendly'

A two-day librarians' Development Programme (lDP) was inaugurated at the KIIT here on Friday in the presence of distinguished library scientists from different universities of Odisha and other States.

Inaugurating the programme, KIIT University VC Prof PP Mathur outlined the history of library science and its present digital system. He described the evolution of library over a period of 700 years. At present it is possible to access any library in the globe and get any information from it by a single click, he said.

Pointing out the identity crisis of librarians, he emphasised that the librarians should be reader-friendly so that the numbers of readers can increase.

Dr AK Rath, Chairman of Central library Committee, KIIT, informed about the huge and world-class library existing on the premises of the KIIT University.

Prof Anil Kumar of IIM Ahmedabad said. “We should try to increase our readers so that our libraries can increase.”