Scope And Objectives
- Set up of Reading room and centralized office for Mobile Library
- Set up mobile library with 10 Vans &5 Buses to cover the radius of 150 Sq.Km
- To organize learning activities and encourage children, youth and general public to acquire their knowledge from various types of learning materials.
- To upgrade the quality of life of the disadvantaged children, youth and people in slum areas, in small enterprises and in construction sites within the covered area.
- Make India Read
- Reach to masses for creating awareness of technologies, government schemes, opportunities for jobs and employment.
- Arranging contest based on reading competition to find intelligence and give them support and exposure in the mainstream
- Digitization of rare and old books after 2 years
- Set reading culture to the next generation
Expected Impact Of Project
Educated manpower is one of the most crucial needs of any country. In developing countries where there is frequently a shortage of skilled manpower is more crucial. Due to the fact that the majority of its population, is living in rural areas, the main occupation of the rural people is agriculture, and the average income of these people is still very low. The experts have pinpointed that illiteracy is one of primary causes of these problems especially in rural and low economic communities.
In order to increase the living standards of the rural dwellers, the government has as its goals, the promotion of education, and the eradication of illiteracy. Information is considered a means to solve the mentioned problems. To fulfill the goals, various organizations and agencies are responsible for carrying out the government policy. Among these, the Non-formal Education takes a leading role through reading culture. There are certain areas or places, where it is hard to find a library and does not have a trace of reading culture in the rural areas.
To set the reading rooms & libraries in each village is time consuming as well as expensive. Hence, the term “Mobile Library” may be considered as all travelling or movable library
Activities in any formats such as large enclosed buses or vans or large motor vehicles equipped with shelves and a staff enclosure to visit rural districts or remote areas where there is no other library service at specific times on a certain day or days of the week. The libraries may choose their books from the shelves to extend to villages and isolates farms and houses.
As we have already known that the main purpose of the Mobile Library is to promote formal schooling system and provide non-formal and informal education. This includes mobile Van libraries that play a major role to create and develop learning skills to children, youths and public. They provide numerous types of learning materials such as printed, artificial and exhibition materials, textbooks, non-formal education learning packages and electronic materials to community people particularly to those living in less developed communities in Solapur district. Moreover, the mobile Van libraries will assist people to keep pace with today’s necessarily fundamental knowledge. This includes family education, health, democracy, environmental education, daily life basic laws and entertainment news. Several types of learning activities are organized in the mobile Van/bus libraries as well.
Solutions/ Way forward
- Mobile Van library : It is served as a general public library where its users can read, apply for library membership and borrow books to read outside the library for 7-21 days. The mobile library provides library services for people in the bus and home delivery at some appropriate places such as temples, community areas, etc.
- Mobile Bus library will be conducted as a moving classroom for a short course of 4-6 hours, where 25-40 earners can be served at a time with teaching and learning activities or trainings according to various curricula or educational seminars.
The following is a list of subject areas covered by each group.
Literature
Examples of activities were Story telling books for youngsters as per the age Novels & Fiction Biographies
Geography
Examples of activities were Books on Travel & Tourism Books related geography, forestry and natural resources :
Map reading : Display of various means of transportation
Business & Economics
Examples of activities Books on Indian Economics World economics Business Magazines
Books on Business managements & start-ups
History Indian History Legacy of Indian History since Origin World History History about Wars Pictorial Books
Mathematics Arithmetic Mathematics games Money card connecting, picture connecting, basic number counting practice: math quizzes; Mathematical instrument displays.
Language
Word Games Books on different Language Learning Poetry Drama
Music
Books on different instruments to learn from basics display of pictures and information on musical instruments: reading about various types of music: Books on Indian Music and different Gharans
Arts
Project Milestones
- Provide at least 10,000 books for circulation in each mobile boat library
- Set up at least 100 video programs and other supplementary learning materials suitable with learners' needs and interests.
- Giving services at least 5 days a week.
- Lending members books and other reading materials.
- Underprivileged children and youths at least 2,000 people are served annually.
- Achieve 200,000 Paid Members.