The Exhibition was open at 5-30 P. m. Pictures, Posters, and all necessary equipment for Adult Education work, also Readers and Maps and models were amongst the exhibits. Models of Registers that libraries are recommended to keep were also exhibited.
Adult Education Conference
An Adult Education Conference was held as an essential adjunct to the main conference. The libraries themselves, in their own little way, have always carried on the literacy endeavor. As, however, the main attention today was being given to this subject it was considered necessary to hold this conference to focus attention on several matters of immediate interest to the Adult Educationist. Sri G. Harisarvottama Rau, M. A., presided. In his address he sketched the history of the Adult Education movement in Andhradesa. He maintained that removal of illiteracy and imparting of culture were the two inalienable faces of Adult Education. The library, he said, was mainly the instrument to spread culture. The Literate would be able in themselves to take full advantage of this instrument. Illiteracy in a nation meant backwardness in culture. The Telugus possessed, fortunately for themselves, a language. literacy which could easily be acquired. A large number of young men capable of removing illiteracy and spreading culture were the need of the hour. If only cuttings from current journals could be filed and indexed subject war, there was much that could be brought to the doors of the reader to his great advantage. Sri Harisarvottama Rao made out a strong case in favor of Adult Education as the fundamental constructive programme for the nation. Swaraj, Self-rule, National reconstruction were all dreams without this foundation.
Sri Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, M. A, Principal, Mudunur Adult Education center narrated his experiences of methods of teaching Adults. Propaganda to spread the movement and gave one good suggestion to libraries. In order to impart direct knowledge to those who go to the libraries, these may in addition to display of books and journals, exhibit also scientific instruments and appliances. He would not mind having less books if that were necessary to possess a thermometry or a barometer. He would prefer a few good journals to heaps of story books.
Later, a discussion took place on points suggested by the President and the other speakers. Sri Kasturi Kutumba Rao, Secretary, Guntur District Library Association, Sri Ayyanki Venkataramanayya, founder Andhradesa Library Association,
