However, you may need to wait there for hours to get a book. (By the way, if you get what you were looking for, you should call it your luckiest day – many books are either missing or “too brittle”). To add, you cannot carry all books to home. For lending of regular books, you will need to make a deposit of RS 7000. As the discussion went on, I was talking about Amazon Kindle and Google Books and how these things can change the education system.Turn The National Library into The National Book Museum.
Now, the problems are:
- The readers are not getting books they want
- Even if they are getting them, they cannot always lend them
- Taking a note of whatever you can from a thousand page book is a big problem and it is time consuming too. And such mindless copying does not help while you actually need them.
- To add to the pathetic situation, you cannot get all the pages photocopied either.
- More painful situation is, some books that are too brittle to be issued for reading, do not have a second copy. What are we storing for the next generation!
- Digitize all books and make them available to anyone and everyone
- Change the name from The National Library to The National Book Museum. If it is not done by 2040, we got a big problem.
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