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"Residents of HAL, Old Airport Road requested us to create a stop in their area. Pushpalatha adds that they decide on creating a stop based on the public demand in that area. "Mobile libraries try to fill that void in other wards but there is still a dearth of public libraries," she says. Pushpalatha says that out of the nearly 200 wards that are now in BBMP limits, only about a hundred of them have public libraries. Setting up of Government libraries has not matched the speed at which the city has expanded. However, 5% of the budgetary allowance is designated as Deputy Directors’ quota which can be used by the Deputy Director of the zonal library to purchase books based on the requests made by the members of the public libraries. The Committee decides the purchase list of books for all public libraries in Karnataka. Books are updated as and when the Book Selection Committee at the Directorate of Libraries issues a new list of books to be purchased which usually happens every fortnight. The mobile library unit functions as a branch in itself. Pushpalatha Rattihalli, Deputy Director of City Central Library near South End Circle says that the South End Central Library is allocated an annual budget of Rs 2 crores to purchase books and distribute it among the 30 branch libraries in its jurisdiction. The units stocks close to 5000 books each, most of them novels. The fuel costs for running these libraries comes up to Rs 6,000 every week and is paid out of the City Library Allocation Fund. The travelling libraries stop for an hour or forty five minutes in some cases, in designated areas where there are no government libraries. The English collection is mostly updated through donations."Ī convenient option for these patrons.
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The Government mandate leaves very less scope to buy English novels which are fairly expensive. John clarifies, "Such books are donated by members.
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However, on closer look, this reporter saw that books such as Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series too were stocked. The English collection had the standard Robin Cook, Jeffrey Archer, Sidney Sheldon, Tom Clancy novels and seemed pretty outdated. John says that adding a newly released book to the collection of the library is a tedious process and takes several months. Some of the recently added books are 2009 novel Rokku, a Kannada novel by M Janak Bramhavar and Kapila by Sreenivas Shastry, which was published in 2008. The State Government mandates that eighty per cent of the books be in Kannada novels while the rest can be a mix of English, Tamil and Telugu novels. On an average, they issue up to 120 books at each stop. More than three-fourth of the members actively borrow books. The Devaraj Urs and Masti Iyengar libraries have a membership of 6290 and 10,200 members respectively and is growing at an average of 500 memberships a year.
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The Devaraj Urs Mobile library reports to City Central Library near South End Circle in Jayanagar and Masti Venkatesh Iyenagar Mobile Library reports to the City Central Library in RPC Layout, Vijayanagar. The first bus was named after writer Masti Venkatesh Iyengar and currently covers north and western parts of Bangalore while the second one named after former Chief Minister D Devaraj Urs, of which he is a staff of, covers southern and eastern parts of the city.ĭevraj Urs library waiting for the patrons in Padmanabhnagar. Celestine says that the service started with one bus in 1983 and the second one followed in 1994. John Celestine, driver-cum-librarian for the mobile unit for 18 years recounts the history of the mobile libraries in Bangalore. The mobile library which arrived from a one-hour stop at Hosakerehalli, Banashankari 3rd Stage, it will now proceed to its third and final stop for the day near Monotype, Banashankari. Members enter through one and return their books at one counter and new books are issued at the other end. The bus has two counters near the two doors at opposite ends. Returns and issues happen quickly as more people come in and within an hour, close to 150 books have been issued. Within seconds of the blue bus pulling up near the bus stop, men and women board the bus, return books and browse for new ones to borrow. These are the government operated libraries on wheels.
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It is not a BMTC bus, however, and is one of the only two vehicles in Bangalore that travels around the city to satisfy the reading needs of bibliophiles.īoard announcing the timings and contact details of the mobile library: Pic: Yogaraj S Mudalgi At 12 15 pm every Wednesday, a blue bus halts near Padmanabha Nagar BMTC bus stop.