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April 23, 2001 |
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To observe International year for Books,
an exhibition was organized on 'Books
on Books', from 23.04.2001 to 30.05-4.2001. On this
occasion, a bibliography was compiled containing 80 entries. |
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June 7, 2001 |
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To commemorate 40 years of the conquest
of space by man, an exhibition was organized on 'Yurii Gagarin and Space', from 07.06.2001
to 20.06.2001 and 'Valentina Tereskova'-extended
up to 23.06.2001. On this occasion, a bibliography was compiled
for 54 entries in English and other Indian languages. |
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July 17, 2001 |
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An exhibition was organized on 'Sanskrit
Language', from 17.07.2001 to 23.07.2001. On this
occasion one monograph entitled 'Catalogue
of Sanskrit manuscript available in the National Library'
was released. |
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August 14, 2001 |
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Dr. P.T. Nair, a noted authority
on the history of Kolkata, delivered a lecture
on Asia's first Circulatory Library (1770 - 1786)
in Calcutta, on 14th August,
2001 at the Exhibition Hall of the Library at Belvedere, Kolkata. |
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September 24, 2001 |
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National library, Kolkata organized - under the project - Activities
for the Northeast States of India -
'a seminar
and workshop on Delivery of Books
Act, 1954 and conservation of documentary heritage' at
the Srimanta Sankara Deva Kalakshetra, Guwahati,
Assam from 24-28 September 2001.Smt. Hemaprabha Saikia,
Honourable Minister, Govt. of Assam inaugurated the workshop. |
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January 5, 2002 |
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'A National Round Table on Modernisation
and Networking of Libraries in India' was held at
New Delhi. The session was inaugurated by Sri Jagmohan, the Hon'ble
Union Minister of Tourism and Culture. Issues on the Electronic
Libraries in Rural India, the National Library, Public Library
services, Department of Culture libraries along with Delivery
of Books Act and National Bibliographic Control database were
discussed. |
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THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE
NATIONAL LIBRARY WAS LAUNCHED ON JANUARY 22, 2002. |
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January 22, 2002
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On the occasion of the Birth Centenary
of Prof. Nirmal Kumar Bose, a renowned anthropologist
and freedom fighter, the National Library had organised an exhibition of his
publications. The exhibition was on till 31st January, 2002.
Shri. Viren J. Shah, H. E. the then
Governor of West Bengal had inaugurated the exhibition
as well as had launched the official
web site of the National Library (www.nlindia.org) on
22 January 2002 at 4.30 p.m.
on the same day. The
website was designed by M/S Cyber Animatrix Pvt. Ltd. Shri Shah
He had also released one CD ROM on the activities of the National
Library. |
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January 29, 2002 |
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Dr. P.T. Nair delivered a lecture on 'Belvedere - the home of the National
Library' on 29th January, 2002 at the Exhibition Hall
of the Main Building of the Library. Dr. Pratap Chandra Chunder,
former Education Minister, Govt. of India, presided over the
function. |
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February 24, 2002 |
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The National Library Organised a '
Seminar and Workshop on Delivery of Books Act and Conservation
of Documentary Heritage' in collaboration with the
Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad from
24th to 26th February, 2002 at the Salar Jung Museum Auditorium,
Hyderabad.
The function inaugurated by the Chief Guest Dr. C. Narayana
Reddy, eminent poet and Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State
Cultural Council. Dr. A. K. V. S. Reddy, Director, Salar Jung
Museum welcomed the participants and Dr. Shymal Kanti Chakravarti,
Director National Library delivered keynote address. The workshop
was attended by over 80 librarians of all district central Libraries
in Andhra Pradesh.
A photographic exhibition on Physical Conservation and Down Memory
Lane - a digitization Programme of the National Library was organized.
The National Library Publications were also exhibited during
the seminar and workshop.
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March 9, 2002 |
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Sri Jagamohan, Hon'ble Minister,
Tourism and Culture, Govt. of India, visited
the National Library. |
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March 18, 2002 |
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An exhibition was organized on "History
of Science in India" from 18.03.2002 to 24.03.2002
at the Exhibition Hall of the National Library, Kolkata. On this
occasion, a bibliography was compiled for 95 entries. |
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April 4, 2002
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National library, Kolkata organized - under the project -
Activities for the Northeast States of India - 'a
seminar
and workshop on Delivery of Books
Act, 1954 and conservation of documentary heritage'
at the State Archives Conference Hall, Aizawl, Mizoram,
during 4-6 April 2002.
Mr. B. Lalthlengliana Honourble Minister, Higher and Technical
Education, Govt. of Mizoram, inaugurated the workshop. |
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April 30, 2002 |
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Sri Thempa Landu of Kolkata
donated a valuable collection
of 29 Tibetan language books. |
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June 8-9, 2002 |
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The National Library launched an awareness program under the
name "Workshop on the Delivery
of Books and News papers (Public Libraries) Act, 1954" with
the collaboration of the State Museum, Dept. of Art and Culture,
Govt. of Manipur, at Imphal.
The workshop was inaugurated by Sri Ved Marwah, Governor of
Manipur and presided by Dr. M. Nara Singh , Minister-in-charge
of Art and Culture, Govt. of Manipur. |
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July 6 - 7, 2002 |
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In collaboration with the Orissa Sahitya
Academy, Bhuvaneswar, the National Library has organised a face-to-face dialogue with the authors and
Publishers of Orissa, under
the Delivery of Books (public
libraries) Act, 1954 Awareness
programme. |
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July 16, 2002 |
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An exhibition
of Sanskrit manuscripts was
arranged in the Rare Books Division of the library |
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July 17-24, 2002 |
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An exhibition on the 'Life and Works of Nabakant Barua',
noted Assamese author, was organised at
the National Library, Kolkata, immediately after the
death of the author |
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August 6-7, 2002
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The National Library, along with Orissa Sahitya Academy, Bhubaneswar,
had organised a workshop on Delivery
of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) act, 1954 and 'Face
to Face' dialogue with the publishers of Orissa at Cuttack.
Sri R. Balakrishnan, Commissioner-cum -Secretary, Dept. of
Tourism and culture, Govt. of Orissa, inaugurated the workshop
and Sri Pathani Patnaik President, Orissa Sahitya Academy was
the Chairperson |
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August 10-11, 2002
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National Library held a workshop
on "Delivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries)
act, 1954 and 'Face to Face' dialogue with the publishers of
Bihar", on 10-11th August 2002 in collaboration
with Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna,
at the Library auditorium.
Prof. Ramachandra Purve, Minister In-charge of Primary Education,
Govt. of Bihar and presided by Prof. Sham Shad Hussain, Ex-Vice
Chancellor, Nalanda Open University, Patna. About 150 publishers
& author, attended the workshop. |
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September 16, 2002 |
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A team of three officers, namely Sri Tapan Sarkar, Gri K.S. Rao and Sri Asesh
Kumar Ghatak, was deputed to
Delhi to attend a meeting convened
by the Dept. of Culture. |
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November 11-15, 2002 |
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A Training programme on the 'Conservation
of Library Materials' was organised
in the library for the professionals
of North-Eastern States of India.
The library professionals from Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura
were imparted both theoretical and practical training. |
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November, 2002 |
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Dr. R. Ramachandrani, P.L.I.O. and Smt.
Tanima Sarkar, A.L.I.O attended a programme 'Infrastructure
Development of Libraries of North East '
at Gangtok. |
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November 15 - 21, 2002 |
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To Commemorate the Birth
Centenary of Late Umaprasad Mookerjee,
an exhibition of books by and on him was arranged in the exhibition
hall of the Library. |
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November 25 - 26, 2002 |
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An Hindi
workshop was organised in the
library to promote use of Hindi in day - to day official work
for those who cleared Praveen and Pragya examonations |
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December 22 - 23, 2002 |
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The Delivery
of Books (Public Libraries) Act
awareness Programme was organised at
Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu in Collaboration
with the Tamil University Tanjavur. |
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