During the previous year the library organised various activities for children with a view to inculcate their interest in the use of libraries and reading habits. Activities like paper reading quiz,reference hunting,slogan writing, poem recitation etc. were organised to encourage children for creative thinking, freedom of expression and opening up their minds for new ideas. However, for all these activities, students from various schools used to come to the library premises for participation. Most of the children are from public, model and urban schools, who given their background, are generally more articulate and less inhibitive in public participation.. Those who have equally creative minds but feel shy or lack  facilities to participate in such activities either because of location of schools or due to certain disadvantages, remain outside the ambit of our activities.  These  children invariably are in ordinary government schools, in rural and slum areas.

This year the Central State Library  outreached such student by organising activities at their place, in the spirit of libraries moving to users door. We  covered large number of disadvantage children compared to the one who have been participating by coming to the library.  However, it may be mentioned that it does not  not affect adversely the children who love to participate in ther activities organised by the libraracy at  its beautiful premises.

Professional / Academic Interactive Programme

Interaction between the academic and the professionals of library and information services has become imperative keeping in view the changing  scenario. To bring them together on one platform and share one’s experiences and expertise, the latest advances in this field and the application of latest information technology is done though professional academic interactive programme.  This programme is also extended to the students of library and information science of government polytechnic college Chandigarh.

Modernisation & Computerisation

The library is committed to modernisation of its operation through proper mix of computerisation and net working. The CSL is the first public library in the north-west region to be fully computerised. The Education Department of Chandigarh liberally sanctioned funds to purchase computer used for networking of all sections in the CSL. The National Informatic Centre(NIC), Government of India, provided technical input for the networking of various sections and tailored the Teclib software used in the system for all housekeeping activities of the library. This implies that all the sections of the library are linked with computer terminals including the facilities available for general public use in circulation, reference and children sections .

English language books are completely computerised. Issue/ return of books is now handled through terminal, which also keeps track of the overdue books and reminding readers to return these pomptly. Issue of duplicate membership cards, cancellation and refund of security are also being handled on computers lines.

The computers are also used for administrative purpose, library management and preparation of reports. The office prepares pay bills and other financial statements and our future plan is to computerise the total office record. On several occasions bibliographies are made on a specific subject.

Serial Database

A step in the computerisation in all the spheres of library activities in the serial database of the library has been developed. Indexing of the latest relevant serial article has started which can be retrived without loss of time.

Hindi & Punjabi Database

Earlier the books only in the English language were put in the computer database. During the year Hindi and Punjabi language books databse has been developed, Thus completing the whole library inventory on the computer.

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