British Library and British Museum, London

Visited the British Library in London in the first week of March. It was a wonderful experience. I would like to introduce at least some of the facilities for our users, if we get space. I loved the exhibition area, which is huge and simultaenously various exhibitions were on. I loved the one of and about Charles Dickens. This is the bicentennial year of Dickens's birth. I got to see some manuscripts in his handwriting. Also in the exhibition area there was a bench, which had headphones, and choice of excerpts from his novels read by ... can't recollect the name right now. I heard a chapter from A Christmas Carol. It was really good.

The Library also has a Conference Centre, which we most definitely would like to have in our Library in the permanent campus. Also other features like a Cafeteria, various Reading Rooms, seating arrangements outside the Reading Rooms and many more...

British Museum is a vast place and needs much more time than I could spend there. However, whatever I could see was awe inspiring. It shows how the people there value the heritage and culture, (not necessarily their own) and preserve it.

May be more of this in the next.