Children and Libraries

Children and libraries
By Zubeida Mustafa 
Wednesday, 03 Feb, 2010

PAKISTANI society is full of contradictions. While the take breeding and purchasing habit has begun to pick up as has been confirmed by some(prenominal) in the book trade, libraries liquid lag behind. 

The few that exist are now chock-a-block. The reading room in the Rangoonwala Hall in Karachi is open 24/7. Yet the law of supply and demand does not come along to be at work in the expansion of libraries for adults. 

wherefore this discrepancy? Why is there not enough participation in setting up libraries when the demand for books is growing? analogous factors seem to be at work which militates against the spread of tuition. 

The political relation which should take the initiative and play the key role in setting up public libraries has been shying away from this responsibility because it feels it derives no political dividends from a policy aimed at making citizens educated. The closed-door sector works for profit and there is not often money to be earned in the library contrast. 

If you look at the break-up of the 8,092 libraries the number calculated by Dr Raees Ahmad Samdani in his PhD thesis and if you believe the Pakistan Economic Survey which gives the number of colleges at 3,292, you will find that only one in quaternion colleges has a library.



 

The record in schools is even worse 481 libraries in 223,000 institutions. This is shocking. At a time when interest in childrens literature is growing, the government should have capitalised on this trend by establishing a network of libraries targeting young readers. 

The absence of libraries in many schools and colleges is a poor reflection on the state of education in the country. With rote learning from notes being the norm and no attention being paid to encouraging the child to count for knowledge there is no room for a library. 

moreover there is a whiff of fresh air in the atmosphere of stagnation that marks the library scene today. up-and-coming NGOs, some of...If you want to get a full essay, smart set it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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