Chandigarh October 23:
The Beant Singh Memorial and Chandigarh Centre for Performing and Visual Arts has decided to set up a library having books in digital and physical forms.
The library would have books related to religions including Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Confucianism. Books on Indian folklore, history of different countries, Indian epics, biographies of Indian personalities, on world wars and on religious and cultural movements in India and the rest of the world would also be housed there.
Stating this, centre director NPS Randhawa revealed it has also been decided to purchase publications of universities and state governments. 'The Punjab digital library has been entrusted with the job of setting up a digital library at Beant Singh Memorial and Chandigarh Centre for Performing and Visual Arts. The library software has been installed on 20 computers. A presentation given on Tuesday related to digitization of books and its benefits in the 21st century as every library endeavours to offer the readers the best,' said Randhawa.
At a meeting in this connection under chairmanship of adviser to UT administrator Pradip Mehra on Tuesday, it was decided that a special committee would visit the upcoming Delhi Book Fair between December 27 and January 2 to shortlist the books to be purchased. It was further decided that a membership campaign for the library may be arranged in different colleges of Chandigarh and Mohali for providing free membership.
