Our college has a splendid library. It is located in a very big space in the remote corner of the college building. You may feel baffled by the near orderly array of books when you enter the library for the first time. There are several rooms in the library. A room is allotted to reference books. These books cannot be taken home. Students study them in the library and take notes from them. Another room is meant for the teachers. A fairly big reading room is attached to the library. It is always crowded. You find all leading newspapers,weeklies, periodicals and magazines in the reading room. In one corner of the big hall, you find catalogues of books. In another corner of the hall there is a counter where library assistants issue books to the students on production of the library cars.
I have always imaginated that Paradise will be a kind of library.
A cosy atmosphere prevails in the library. A silence, which are not accustomed to, prevails all around. Of course, a low humming sound comes from the reading room despite the repeated requests for the perfect silence from the man in charge.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Mr. Laique Lodhi is the librarian of our college library. He has been working as a librarian for the last fifteen years. He is a fine gentleman with a pleasing nature. He is always ready to help a student in finding a book.
My library is an archive of longings.
Our college library contains books of nearly all descriptions - literary, scientific, historical, biographic, political, religious, technical and social. Our college library also contains books on fiction, art, painting, music etc. Our library contains, I am told, as many as fifteen thousand volumes.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
The advantages we derive from our library are greatand many. History books tell us of the past; geography tells us of other countries; books on astronomy, physiology, physics, chemistry and biology open our eyes to the beautifuland wonderful creations of God. Biographies of great men remind us that "we can make our lives sublime". Tales of travels, adventure and exploration fill our hearts with inspiration to wander abroad. Novels give us recreation in our leisure hours.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
