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Ya khoda! 100 year old books look good at museums, not at a library!
The stupid government should do something about it.
Buying new books every month and keeping the library open for 24 hours is a must.
The stupid government should do something about it.
Buying new books every month and keeping the library open for 24 hours is a must.

Old books gives me a thrill also. Like Ajanta apu said, i saw some books from British period. Dated like 23.01.1919. In one book, i can remember the date of issuing by someone was the year 1921!

When i met my gf for the first time, who is currently my wife by the way, we used to go to the public library often..although it was a completely different theme then but it was a good place to be..for the book lovers. i don't think its grt bcos u don't get grt books there..better for those who are working on soething, may be reference books...well all these are based on my personal view..


All this information,i came to know about was from my father. When he was a student of DU, he used to go there. And the situation in those days was not at all better than today.
One day he was reading 'Rubayat e Khaiyam' and left the book for the next day to read. But when he reached there in the next day, the book disappeared. And in those days this book was very rare. Specially the translation by Kazi Nazrul Islam. And you know when my father could finish reading this book? It was just the last year when i bought it for him from New Market. And it took for him more than thirty two years to finish a single book! Can you imagine???
I think this story represents the old days of our Public Library. And the present is all known to us.
Thanx for starting a great topic. i'll write my experince all about this later.