President Pranab Mukherjee Monday launched the Rs
400-crore National Mission on Libraries (NML) in New Delhi. Appreciating the
Ministry of Culture for taking the initiative for long-term focus on the
development of libraries, he lauded the efforts to “revamp, re-energize and
reorient the library and information service sector”.
The mission has been set up in keeping with the
recommendations made by the PM-backed National Knowledge Commission.
“Digital libraries open up the possibility of
far more flexible and coherent multimedia collections that are both fully
searchable and browsable in multiple dimensions. As each generation becomes
more in tune with the Internet, their desire to retrieve information as quickly
and easily as possible has increased.
Finding information by simply searching the
Internet is considered much easier and faster than reading an entire book. I am
confident this initiative will largely facilitate the Internet savvy people in
making maximum use of library resources,” he said.
Thanks to: indianexpress.com
