National Librarians’ Day was celebrated at Bharatesh Education Trust’s Global Business School (BETGBS) Library along with rest of the country to pay tribute to father of Library Science Dr. S R Ranganathan on his birthday. BETGBS Library celebrated the day by organizing a book exhibition for its all stakeholders.
Dr. Suman Muddapur Librarian, RCU Sangoli Rayanna First Grade College Belagavi, Shri Rajeev Dodannavar, Vice-Chairman, BET, Shri. Mahaveer Upadhye, GC-Chairman BETGBS, paid tribute to Padmashree Dr. Ranganathan and inaugurated the book exhibition.
Addressing the participants Dr. Suman Muddapur informed that National Librarians’ Day is celebrated in India on August 12th in remembrance of Padmashree Dr. Ranganathan, who spearheaded library development in India. Mam also mentioned the role of libraries in critical thinking and development of decision science among the readers who read books in physical form rather in the online mode.
Shri Rajeev Dodannavar described the importance of library and the vital role of a librarian in molding and shaping the readers. Sir also highlighted the significance of Digital library in today’s knowledge era.
Shri. Mahaveer Upadhye in his presidential remarks mentioned about the role of librarians to work towards meeting the information needs of the people by providing high quality information system and making awareness about the availability of new resources for the users.
More than 300 visitors were witnessed the book exhibition and received rich insights on the library resources on the occasion of National Librarians’ Day
