August 2022
To mark National Librarian’s Day, IIITH library organized a book exhibition for the campus community from 12 – 14 August at KRB Exhibition Hall by leading publishers and book distributors that included a wide collection of International and Indian books, particularly in subjects like Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities and Literature – both fiction and non-fiction in English, Hindi, and Telugu. The exhibition was open to all faculty members, students, staff and campus residents.
Leading book publishers and distributors were invited such as Aditya Book, Noida, Standard Book Company, Bangalore, Shah Book House, Hyderabad, Professional Book Service in collaboration with Feel Books, Bangalore, Akshara Book Shop, Hyderabad, Miland Prakashan, Hyderabad, and the Navachetan mobile book exhibition van. Both Indian and internationally published books were on display. Apart from academic books relating to the disciplines taught in IIITH, the book exhibition also had many titles on display relating to literature and general readings from around the world and the country in English, Hindi, and Telugu. Special emphasis was placed on getting works of Nobel Laureates, works of celebrated Indian scientists & technologists, classics of literature, philosophy, and books for children and young adults.
Regarding academic books, the focus was on Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities. Books published from 2018 were brought to the exhibition from leading publishers like Taylor and Francis, CRC, Routledge, IET, Edinburg University Press, SIAM, John Hopkins University Press, Springer, Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, World Scientific, Wiley, Pearson, Orient Blackswan, American Mathematical Society, Appress, Sage, Penguin, Hachett, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, Bloomsbury, Perment Black, etc.
The aim of book exhibitions organised by the library is to help our academic community recommend additions to our collections. The book exhibitions also allow our community to add books to their personal collections, as well as help nurture the reading habit among all of us, especially students. It also allowed our faculty and students to interact directly with different publishers and distributors.
With more than 200 members of our community coming to the book exhibition, this provided a good platform for our community to interact with each other and share recommendations. The response was positive as many aspiring young readers including faculty were seen showing interest. We hope to build on this to organise even better book exhibitions with a wider array of subjects, disciplines, topics and areas.
The major outcomes are as follows.
- Library could able to get good book recommendations
- Faculty members and students have purchased books on their interest
- Students had a chance to get some good collection
- Conversation among the community members related to various book collection
- Healthy environment on book reading
