by Read Pakistan | Aug 25, 2022 | LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES
Public libraries, e-lending, eating out and rasgullas Rauf Parekh COLONEL Muhammad Khan, one of Urdu’s celebrated 20th century humorists, once wrote that when a librarian complained that the number of visitors to the library was dismal and...
by Read Pakistan | Aug 25, 2022 | LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES
The calamity of the disappearing school libraries The calamity of the disappearing school libraries Debra Kachel Professor of School Library and Information Technologies Program, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania From coast to coast, elementary and high school...
by Read Pakistan | Aug 25, 2022 | LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES
‘The magic of libraries’: Why we need them, by Joseph Coelho Author Joseph Coelho mounts a passionate defence of libraries – and explains how they really help our communities. I grew up next to the best library in the world, West Hill Library – my beautiful,...
by Read Pakistan | Aug 24, 2022 | LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES
A childhood spent in the libraries of Quetta Stories from an attic: A childhood spent in the libraries of Quetta ‘Imran’ series by Ibn-e-Safi. The writer who came a distant second was a gentleman Akram Allahabadi with his Superintendent Khan and...
by Read Pakistan | Aug 24, 2022 | LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES
As mental health services continue to be cut, librarians are becoming an informal lifeline for people with serious problems A mobile library in Rock, Cornwall: ‘One day a week, my mobile library stopped at a small rural community based around a bus stop.’ Photograph:...
