KATHMANDU, AUGUST 20
Participants at an interaction organised by the Sustainable Development and Good Governance Committee have called for developing libraries in digital form and making them available for users in both offline and online platforms.
In the interaction organised by the Committee under the National Assembly, Yagya Raj Bhatta said the library should be developed in the form of materials such as audio and video.
Bhatta stressed the need to develop the library in a digital form that would be accessible to users across the world without any obstruction.
Asserting that the upcoming era was going to be digital era, NA member Bamdev Gautam drew the attention of the committee to developing library in a way that readers could avail its services in the forms of audio and video and in any language. He pressed for building a large library at the central level and added that the library should possess ample availability of digital materials.
Nepal Library Association President Indra Prasad Adhikari informed that there are altogether 327 communities and public libraries across the country at present.
He lamented that the National Library's building was damaged by the Gorkha earthquake in 2015 and is currently being run in a small hut at Sano Thimi in Bhaktapur due to lack of timely reconstruction.
Taking part in the interaction, Under-secretary of the Division of Library Coordination of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Yadav Chandra Niraula said although the government had a plan to construct a building for the Nepal National Library on eight ropani land at Jamal in Kathmandu, the construction work had not made any headway owing to some technical issues.
A version of this article appears in the print on August 21, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
