ఆంధ్ర గ్రంథాలయం/సంపుటము 1/డిసెంబరు 1939/The Andhra Desa Library Association
The Andhra Desa Library Association
The Andhra Desa Library Association has had a fairly long career of 25 years. All through this period, it has kept the torch of service for the culture of our rural population burning. In fact, it is the first Association in India to draw attention to the Rural Library and its organization. It is the first Association to put up fight for the recognition of libraries for Government aid. From a stage where Local Bodies were. precluded, by executive orders, from lending financial aid to libraries to the stage where the Government paid annual grants to libraries through Local Bodies and in addition set apart a specific amount for distribution amongst Panchayat Libraries, our Association was able to influence the whole course of action by its agitation and representations.
Our Association it was that took the initiative to organize Conferences for Library endeavor on a wider basis. The first attempt to train men for Librarianship was made by us. The unique travelling library service by carts and boats was inaugurated under our auspices. We have also inaugurated Library Marches in several areas. We have throughout attempted to keep the freedom of culture intact by insisting on the right of library administration to buy books and other literature of their choice.
We have all through conducted a journal*[1] of our own and circulated it to our libraries at great sacrifice. This endeavor has had to suffer for want of funds and on account of restrictions that existed on Local Bodies from helping us. Fortunately the negative restriction has now been removed. We have also drafted a Library Bill which will be presented to the Government in course of time. Since all this work had to be done as labor of love and with no prospect of public recognition for the worker.......... it has had necessarily to be limited in its showing capacity, while one touch of the wizard's wand of the Borada Gaekwar could give the Library Movement in Baroda which started later, a premier place; for want of a similar touch on our behalf we have been left to carry on as best as possible under conditions of poverty and apathy!
(Extracted from the memorandum submitted by the Andhra Desa Association to the Hon'ble Ministers for Education, Local Administration and Industries and Labor to the Government of Madras on 28-11-1938).
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- ↑ The journal referred to is the 'Grandhalaya Sarvasvam' started in 1916. It was dealing with literary, historical and other cultural subjects with special reference to the activities of the Public Library Movement at home and abroad. It had run to 12 volumes under the maternal care and able editorship of Mr.Iyyanki Venkata Ramanaiah who had rendered, both through his journal and through his outside activities yeoman service to the cause of the Library Movement in India. But owing to lack of financial aid, the journal had to cease publication in 1938 when the responsibility for continuing it was shifted to our shoulders. The name of the journal is now changed to 'Andhra Granthalayam' which is now appearing in its second number in volume one.