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Award celebrates librarians in the age of algorithms
March 01, 2026 9:53 pm
The award is named after Professor Harsha S Parekh, who spent her career at SNDT Women’s University, where she headed the SHPT School of Library Sciences and helped establish India’s first independent Faculty of Library Science.
Unsung heroes: One man, 2 million books, meet the Padma Shri recipient behind the world’s largest free access library
February 07, 2026 10:52 pm
Padma Shri recipient Anke Gowda expressed concerns over the decline of reading habits among the younger generation.
25,000 books, AC study booths, and ovens to heat lunch: Inside Bathinda’s new high-tech library drawing rural students
January 16, 2026 1:42 pm
Apart from study booths, the District Digital Public Library in Bathinda includes a stationery shop, a cafeteria, and multiple reading halls.
Hidden Stories | What innovators read to gain competitive advantage: Inside Pune library that's nourished minds of entrepreneurs for 17 years
December 21, 2025 1:10 pm
With an annual membership fee of Rs 1,000, the Venture Center Library in Pune is popular with startup founders and budding business minds.
A Mumbai mother's solution to kids' screen time: An app-based book rental service
December 18, 2025 7:57 pm
How a Mumbai mother became an entrepreneur, building an app-based book library covering 300 towns to swap screens for storybooks
What You’re Looking For Is In The Library: The book that held me when I was falling apart
December 03, 2025 1:18 pm
Laid off days after my wedding, I found an unexpected guide to putting the pieces back together in a novel everyone called "too simple."
Mumbai’s forgotten spaces: What happened to our libraries?
August 25, 2025 11:48 am
Mumbai’s libraries, once alive with debate and discovery, now risk becoming relics of neglect.
Why you will have to wait 89 years to read Amitav Ghosh’s next book
October 12, 2025 9:31 am
Amitav Ghosh contributes to Future Library: The 68-year-old Indian novelist, whose works have traced the histories of empire, migration, and ecological change, was announced as the 12th author to join the century-long literary time capsule.
How Hungary’s 1,000-year-old library is tackling a beetle infestation to save 1 lakh books
July 14, 2025 7:03 pm
Founded in 996, the abbey is located on a hill in northwest Hungary. It houses the country’s oldest book collection and some of its earliest written records.
This cosy new public library in Gurgaon invites people to leave the chaos behind and read for free
June 23, 2025 7:52 pm
After receiving a positive response to its public library in Noida, IT firm Coforge launched a second such space in Gurgaon’s Badshahpur on June 7 with over 16,000 titles and décor designed to create an atmosphere of calm.
LIBRARY PHOTOS
In pictures: Library named after novelist Haruki Murakami set to open in Tokyo
September 26, 2021 4:10 pm
A library devoted to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s writings, scrapbooks and record collection opens next week in Tokyo. Take a look at the pictures here
In pictures: A look at Kolkata's first tram library
September 25, 2020 3:14 pm
The tram library will contain books and magazines, including those on competitive examinations such as the civil services, WBCS, GRE or GMAT in order to attract readers from various educational institutions along its route, PTI reported
LIBRARY VIDEOS
University has right to suspend students not attending classes: Swamy on Dalit student suicide case
January 21, 2016 7:55 am
New Delhi, Jan 21 (ANI): Commenting on the Hyderabad Dalit student suicide case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday said a university is a place to learn and the administration has all the rights to suspend students who do not attend classes. He added that the boy who committed suicide was not barred from studying, going to library or anywhere else. He was only asked not to stay in the university hostel as he was involved in “violent activities”. He further stated that suspension does not mean expulsion and he shouldn’t have taken such a big step.
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