Selling library tradition to complement human assets in Bangladesh

Library tradition must be promoted throughout Bangladesh to fulfil the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla,’ freed from illiteracy, starvation and poverty

The library is the in-house assortment of data and data that enrich our psychological and mental capability. Each e-book, non-book (microfilm or microfiche), periodical, newspaper, and different objects of data and data are useful for the event of a civilisation. 

Each phrase of a doc or e-book containing the writers’ and students’ insights, ideas, and prophecies are saved and preserved within the libraries to enlighten society and domesticate promising future generations by disseminating data and knowledge. 

Well-known Bangali author Motaher Hossain Chowdhury termed the library as the usual for ascertaining the expansion and improvement of a civilization and the progress of a nation. Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore had an enormous reverence for the library. He acknowledged {that a} library will be considered a Tower of Silence, like a sleeping little one, which embodies the entrapped vibrations of an age-old ocean. Alternatively, Pramatha Chowdhury positioned the library above faculties and schools as a result of literary observe is the primary a part of training.

A library is meaningless with out a wealthy assortment of studying supplies and analysis content material. Readers are the only real brokers of a library. The way in which bees climb onto totally different flowers to gather nectar, readers discover their strategy to collect obligatory data from the huge ocean of information. As well as, the library is thought to be the College of the lots. The underprivileged part of society can simply entry the universe of information via the library. 

Libraries are categorised as public, non-public, educational, particular, and different sorts primarily based on their functionalities and functions. In a common perspective, public libraries are primarily given the very best emphasis because the preeminent platforms for increasing literacy and life-long training owing to facilitating a superb variety of customers and offering accessibility to all lessons of individuals. 

Bangladesh, as a densely populated nation, should introduce and nurture full-bodied library tradition in each nook and nook to teach the overwhelming majority of her inhabitants in each city and rural areas. The federal government, together with totally different NGOs and a few philanthropic personalities, are rendering relentless efforts to ascertain libraries to enlighten the backward portion of populaces who’re disadvantaged of upper training and scientific data. 

Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed, one of many legendary personalities of Bangladesh, established Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (World Literature Heart) in 1978 with the slogan “We would like enlightened individuals” to domesticate the studying behavior among the many widespread lots. Professor Sayeed has launched the idea of the cellular library underneath Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, which has been circumnavigating throughout the nation to draw readers to learn books on simple borrow and return procedures.  

A civilisation thrives and reaches the last word vacation spot by the relentless effort and endeavour of a knowledge-based society. The expansion of this knowledge-based society is basically reliant on the progress and development of libraries. The extra a rustic concentrates on the growth of library tradition amongst its populace with full-fledged data and communication applied sciences, the extra data societies and expert generations are prone to develop to take all the event actions and socio-economic impetus to the superior degree. 

As ailing luck would have it, Bangladesh remains to be lagging behind on the way in which to nurturing and rushing up library programmes throughout the nation to seem as a champion within the race with the developed and growing nations to deal with the challenges of the twenty first century.  

Bangladesh’s authorities is dedicated to growing the nation’s socio-economic standing and reaching the standing of a high-income nation via digitisation and industrialisation inside 2041. Imaginative and prescient-41 will change into profitable solely when a superb variety of educated individuals take part within the improvement programmes. 

Right here comes the necessity to set up libraries to unfold training on the grassroots degree. Each city and village will need to have a library explicitly designed to facilitate the fashionable studying setting for all age teams by guaranteeing ICTs and digital library services.

No improvement initiative will bear any fruit with out educating the better portion of the agricultural inhabitants. In addition to, the present Digital divide between cities and villages must be eradicated by launching digitisation programmes within the libraries to organize widespread lots as skilful human capitals for marking our presence within the altering world of information and knowledge. 

The federal government, NGOs and different philanthropic organisations ought to work hand in hand to popularise library tradition throughout the nation to fulfil the dream of illiteracy-, hunger- and poverty-free ‘Sonar Bangla’ by selling lifelong studying programmes via libraries. 

Aktarul Islam and Md Habibur Rahman. Illustration: TBS

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Aktarul Islam and Md Habibur Rahman. Illustration: TBS