Today is budget day and the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who will be presenting his 5th Budget in Parliament, might just take into account the following proposals that were presented to him earlier by the ALIKE i.e Association of Libraries in India for increasing Knowledge & Education: Increasing budget allocation on all kind of libraries – central, state, district, town, city, municipal, residential…you get the idea Make books more [...]
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Budget Proposals
Posted in Humour, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 26, 2010 |
Cooking up stories
Posted in Events, Happenings, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 25, 2010 |
With a headline like the one above, we’ll be relieved if it doesn’t remind you of events in the recent past about a certain company (now in a new avatar) which has become the role model for what ‘cooking the books’ ought to mean! Nope, this news is even better: Indian book publisher Undercover Utopia [...]
Behave or else?!
Posted in Humour, Miscellanous, Opinion on February 24, 2010 |
Picture above shows a poster displayed at our Whitefield library. Nearly all the points contained therein are in the interest of developing a mutually beneficial relationship with our members. Only the last point – that of ’maintaining silence’ – appears as though addressing a behavior issue. We’ve not had any problems requesting our members for that, too. Universally, it’s [...]
Planner non-pareil
Posted in Branches, HSR Layout, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 23, 2010 |
Introducing the newest member of the JustBooks clc branch network in Bangalore – HSR Layout! Our franchisee recalls with pride how he began his meticulous planning for the library since December 20th, 2009. His efforts ( & the architect’s vision ) have resulted in this beautiful, compact 900+ sq. ft library. You can view all [...]
E-readers in India
Posted in eBook Readers, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 23, 2010 |
Business Standard has an interesting article in yesterday’s edition titled ‘ Turning a digital page’: Bookworms warm up to the e-reader, but the device will take a few years to catch on in India. Interesting references to a recent survey about e-readers & their acceptability factor in India: 93 per cent of e-reader owners are [...]
Toy Story, 1 & 2
Posted in Happenings, Opinion, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 22, 2010 |
On one hand, there is no dearth of entrepreneurs willing to take risks and offer new products and services. Toy Libraries? Whoever heard of them? You’ll be surprised to know that they are plenty of them in Bangalore city. The seeds of this business model wafted from up north – Delhi, Mumbai & Pune, where [...]
Ain’t nothing common about this
Posted in Books, Prizes, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 21, 2010 |
In what can be described as a shot in the arm for the publishing industry in India, Four Indian authors have been nominated for this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is sponsored and administered by the Commonwealth Foundation with the support of the Macquarie Foundation in the Europe , South Asia, South East Asia [...]
Fortune’s Residence
Posted in Branches, Kalyan Nagar, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 18, 2010 |
Folks, here’s introducing the newest branch of the JustBooksclc network in Bangalore – Kalyan Nagar. Click here to see all pictures of Kalyan Nagar and other libraries here.
Not just cricket
Posted in Happenings, Miscellanous on February 15, 2010 |
We hope that what Sharjah may have lost as a premier location for one dayer’s, it has gained in hosting Reading Festivals. The city is hosting the third edition of the Sharjah Reading Festival which began yesterday with the two-day Children’s Book Forum also opening simultaneously at the Expo Centre. The Sharjah Reading Festival is [...]
A library that impressed Somerset Maugham
Posted in Libraries in India on February 15, 2010 |
Nearly seven decades ago, a public library in a small provincial town in India surprised famous English writer William Somerset Maugham with its immense collection of books and quality of service rendered to a society yearning for knowledge. Amazed by the wide collection of world classics and continental literature there, including his own works, the [...]
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