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CIESCO library completes 50 years

Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE: The CIESCO Library, functioning under the aegis of the cultural organisation CIESCO at Kuttichira here, has completed 50 years of its existence.

The library was established on November 1, 1956, when the State of Kerala also came into existence.

The library was affiliated to the Kerala Grandhashala Sangam in 1957. Now, the library which has membership of the Kerala State Library Council is an `A' grade one. It has been receiving maximum grant from the council.

It also receives aid under various schemes from the Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata.

A literacy campaign, mobile library, textbook library, reference library, Forest Department books, and children's corner have been some of the initiatives of the library in these 50 years.

Novel project

A novel project to provide library books to students of Kuttichira Government Vocational Higher Secondary School was started recently.

The library has recently prepared a project for its computerisation and the project has been submitted for aid.

It has a membership of 1,200 members. It has nearly 19,000 books and 52 magazines.

C.A. Ummerkoya is the library president and M. Alikoya the secretary.

A workshop is being organised for those associated with the library movement at Kuttichira on Saturday.

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