VISIT TO PALACE OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND EDUCATION

A day of open doors has been declared in the Uzbekistan national library named after Alisher Navoiy on 6-9 September on the occasion of the beginning of a new academic year.

In efforts to raise the morality of the country’s younger generation, who are second to none and who are well in every respect, constant attention is paid to further strengthening boys’ and girls’ love for books and to enhancing their reading culture.

Systemic work is being carried out in this area to introduce modern information communication technologies in libraries and information resource centres and to supply new literature to them.

The scale of this work is being further expanded as part of the implementation of the Year of Maternal and Child Health state programme.

And this day of open doors being conducted in the library is of important significance to enhancing young people’s reading culture and to further extending their knowledge relating to information communication technologies and to informing readers about possibilities and conveniences created in this place of enlightenment.

As part of the event, a documentary film about the library’s work was shown to students of the Tashkent railway engineering institute, the Tashkent finance institute, the Uzbekistan state physical training institute and the Uzbekistan state university of world languages and secondary special and vocational training establishments.

“Our library has been packed with young people since this morning. Tours are being conducted to the museum of books, exhibition hall, departments, readers’ catalogues and card-index halls and electronic catalogues’ room. It is exhilarating that young people’s interest in books is rising with every passing year and that their reading culture is developing,” says the deputy director of the library, U.Teshaboyeva.

Those aged 12 or over can be members of this library. They are given plastic cards confirming their membership. Conditions have been specified on its official website for the provision of a wide range of high-quality services for readers.

“Books play an incomparable role in people’s education and in the enhancement of their morality and the formation of their worldview. All the necessary conditions have been created for us, students, to study well, to get thorough knowledge and to learn many foreign languages,” says a student of the Tashkent state institute of oriental studies, Sh.Ahmedov.

As part of the event, there are plans to hold meetings with poets and writers and representatives of the culture and art sphere, to give presentations and to provide training.

UzA