From the National Library to your college reading room, libraries will cease to be dingy, poorly lit halls with badly maintained catalogues.
The Centre will spend Rs 1,000 crore on libraries, big and small, across the nation, upgrading their treasure of books, manuscripts and transcripts and polishing up their ambience.
Calcutta’s National Library, the only library to find mention in the Indian Constitution as an institute of excellence, is likely to be the first to benefit when the National Mission on Library and Information Services (NMLIS) gets off the ground in October.
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