Dear Members, Patrons and Well Wishers,

It gives me immense pleasureand privilege to greet you on this auspicious occasion of the completion ofthree fruitful years of Palakkad District Public Library

With about a lakh of Books andmore than 500 Compact Discs in its stocks for lending and reference, 20 NewsPapers and 250 Periodicals for Reading, about 4000 members in variouscategories in its Roll, Conducting of Seminars on various socio – economic-cultural – literary subjects, Workshops on different disciplines like Poetry, Short Stories, Painting, Womenempowerment etc, Several Book Releasing Programmes, Monthly Discussion on Books(Vayana), Interaction with famous writers (Meet the Author), Weekly MusicalProgrammes by Mehfil Palakkad, Weekly exhibition of Classical Films by LibraryFilm Society Palakkad District Public Library has become the center of cultureof Palakkad District.

The various Corners dedicatedto immortal writers of Palakkad and to various subjects have become projectsworth emulation by all important libraries of the state and well appreciated byeveryone who visits the Library. We have at present the following Corners

1.       1. MahathmaGandhi Corner

2.       2. SwamiVivekananda Corner

3.       3. EMSCorner

4.       4. OlappamannaCorner

5.       5. O.V.VijayanCorner

6.       6. VKNCorner

7.       7. P.KunhiramanNair Corner

8.       8. CherukatCorner

9.       9. P.GovindaPillai Corner

10.     10. MundurKrishnan Kutty Corner

11.     11. Dr.K.N.EzhuthachanCorner

12.     12. P.T.BhaskaraPanikkerCorner

We have started a Children’sCorner with Books, charts, play materials etc. We provide a theme for everyfortnight and children are requested provide their contribution on the subjectby way of Poems, Essays, Short Stories, Paintings, Caricatures etc which willbe exhibited in the corner. A weekly get together of Children to discuss thesecreations is scheduled. This area is well monitored and supervised by Mrs.Latha Anantharaman, who is sparing excellent efforts.

We are on the anvil of commencing the following additional corners in the near future.

1.     1. Technical Corner in Association with Darsana, the association of Alumni of NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad.

2.     2. ManagementCorner in association with Lead college of Management

3.     3. Bankingand Economic Corner in Association with State Bank of Travancore

4.     4. KPS MenonCorner in association with KPS Menon Trust and Family Members of KPS Menon

5.     5. AgriculturalCorner in association with Kerala Agricultural University, Mannuthy

6.     6. IslamicCultural Corner

7.     7. Corner ofHistory and Culture of Christianity

8.     8. Grey Corner to present un published works of importance

We have started the Organic Cultivation and this month we propose to extend the area of cultivation and to produce vegetables in 100 grow bags.

Several developmental projects have been envisaged for which finance has to be mobilized from all sources, Governmental, Corporate, Personal and institutional. All likely minded people are requested to provide their assistance for thedevelopment of this noble venture.

Now we have about 4000 Members. We have declared the months of July, August and September as Membership Campaign months. Our target is to make the membership touch 8000 by the end of the Campaign period. I request all members to enroll at least one additional member in Palakkad District Public Library so that we can achieve the target.

I thank profusely all the persons who have contributed to make this Library one of the model libraries of the state, even though pen and paper are but poor media to express our sincere feelings of gratitude. It is only because of your patronage, hard work and support this institution has grown to this stature within a short span of 3 years. Please continue to support us in all our future programmes and endeavors.

T.R.Ajayan

Secretary

7/3/2016