Promoting National pride through library culture.

Byline: Abid Hussain

The key to national development lies in cultivating talents, practical virtues. Sophisticated skills, desirable attitude, and the awakened mind and proper knowledge. Above all, the right knowledge can be attained with the help of the right resources and the right resources require a handsome amount. Libraries are actual treasurers for the correct information to the right people at the right time.

Traditionally, the role of Archives, museums, and libraries was intermediary between users, distributors and creators. But, advanced technology altered the role of publishers, creators and users. Now people produce, publish and disseminate the information in digital formats based anywhere and anytime. The role of libraries is to preserve the records in digital and printed formats.

The advanced technology irrevocably and dramatically altered the linear nature of the traditional process. Now, the creator has become the distributor in the digital environment. People nowadays publish and communicate their published work through different platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other research blogs like Research gate, academia, etc.

Libraries drive the citizens through a visionary mind.They are excellent sources for collecting organizations and disseminating information that society accesses and uses to inform themselves with robust knowledge organized in the library. In short, the libraries are tangible assets for national pride

Today's every country improves their GDPs and exports their goods to bring prosperity, peace, and social harmony to their nations. They planned a national agenda programme to develop their economic growth for national development. Many countries demonstrate further development through broadband, digital inclusion and social development plans. Many countries focus on knowledge-economy and for this, they produce a handsome amount of research framework in a different discipline.

Planning these research activities required up-to-date knowledge and libraries to make across the goal framework through campaigns and meeting the government officials. Libraries are playing a tremendous role in achieving the goals of national development. In making any national strategize, the role of libraries can never be denied because libraries offer access to the right information before formulating government agenda.

It is a fact that all societies can have libraries, but broadly, libraries are built for three...