The fact that libraries are part of this society and that new library-centric initiatives need patronage is not in the minds of policy makers. Even the rich in society don’t think so. Libraries do not get anything from the money that corporates spend on CSR. There has been talk for a long time that those who donate to the library could be given a tax exemption. But no action was taken. Apathy everywhere.
Writer, liberation war researcher Mofidul Haque often says one thing. We must build brilliant infrastructure at the people’s expense. But it needs patriotic humanitarians to realize its necessity, its sustainment, its importance.
And the address for creating such people is the public libraries known as the people’s university. Therefore, an overall policy should be formulated by realizing the importance of libraries in the development of the intellect, taste and culture of the people of this country. But when is that? And how long Panzeri?
Qazi Alim-uz-Zaman Prothom Alo Upbarta Editor
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