‘Books at Doorstep’ a hit among schoolchildren in Ernakulam
The Hindu
Library council members take books to children’s homes to revive reading habit
The Ernakulam District Library Council’s initiative, ‘Books at Doorstep’, to revive reading habit among schoolchildren has evoked enthusiastic response and is on course to exceeding the target. The project launched this month aimed at reaching out to 25,000 families spread across 500 libraries under the district library council. The idea was to lend one lakh books a month by giving four books to a child and cover at least 50 households in every library limits. “We expected to lend 12 lakh books a year, but is now very likely to exceed that going by the great response to the project. In fact, some of the libraries have taken it with such zeal that they have already covered over a hundred households,” said M.R. Surendran, secretary, Ernakulam District Library Council.More Related News