Dr.S. RAGHAVAN's CONTRIBUTION TO LIBRARIES

HELEN KELLER

Helen Keller

HELEN KELLER- an international celebrity who has shown the light of the day to disabled and a prodigy is to be remembered on this ‘WORLD DISABLED DAY’. Helen Keller would not have been known to the world had she not lost both her sight and hearing at nineteen months of age due to scarlet fever. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”; this is what she has proved to the universe by her life. She practiced and wrote,” Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it”. Yes! Helen Keller overcame disabilities and worked to help others who were blind and deaf.she has shown millions of people that disability need not be the end of the world.

Helen Keller was born on June27, 10 in Tuscumbia, Alabama... Through Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and a teacher for the deaf a young teacher, Annie Sullivan of Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston was her mentor. Sullivan had herself been blind for a time, only to regain partial sight through surgery. Using an alphabet of hand shapes which can be spelled into another person's hand, Sullivan followed Keller everywhere. From this point on, Keller was ravenous for knowledge... Keller quickly learnt to read Braille and a specialized typewriter allowed Keller to communicate in writing.

On 28 June 1904 Helen graduated from Radcliffe College, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. In recognition of her wide knowledge and many scholarly achievements, she received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University and Harvard University and from the Universities of Glasgow, Scotland; Berlin, Germany; Delhi, India; and Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was also an Honorary Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland.

The Hindi movie Black released in 2005 was largely based on Keller's story, from her childhood to her graduation. Keller has traveled wide with very good public speaking and has contacted many famous persons including John.F.Kennedy., Keller championed the cause of veterans who had been blinded in battle during World war II.Helen wrote a number of very well-received books, including

· The Story of My life

· Optimism

· The World I Live In

· The Song of the Stone Wall

· Out of the Dark

· My Religion

· Midstream:My Later Life

· Teacher

On June 1, 1968, Helen Keller breathed her last at the age of 87.Her few quotations are "Once I knew only darkness and stillness. . . . My life was without past or future. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched and my heart leaped to the rapture of living”

LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND-HELEN KELLER KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

Skills of persons with disabilities can be developed only when the society at large looks at the abilities in them. Library servives play an important role in achievement of literacy of disabled persons. . .

There is an urgent need for physically challenged also to have the equal access to the knowledge centre as that of normal persons. One of the ways and means of bridging the gap of disability and ability is by ensuring an effective library service for the physically challenged. Gone are the days where Library is said to be place where there are collection of books.

Now the age is DIGITAL LIBRARY. There are so many special libraries have come into existence. Why not state libraries come forward to establish a dedicated section of Library exclusively for physically challenged? Already there is a plan to have one such section of library in the District Central Library, Karur. No wonder that district has bagged an award this year as the best district that has worked for the uplift of disabled persons.

In Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, there is a spacious section in the first floor exclusively for the blind students and research scholars. It is named as ‘HELEN KELLER LIBRARY’. There cannot be a fitting name for that. Digital Braille library is functioning with twenty computer terminals.Talkingbooks are available. Visually challenged persons do not feel so there. Delhi University Library has a huge collection of study material.

Few more selective Libraries in India do have a section for blind. But it should become common phenomena in all public libraries. A small table is given below as the ready reckon

The Library for the blind should have automated doors for the entry, wheel chair accessible study centers, Head sets with adaptive technology, Kuizweil 3000 software(a text to speed reading machine with synthesized speech output), JAWS(Job Access With Speech), virtual section, text type telephone, biblotherapy(for mentally retarded),Braille printers, Braille embosser and tape duplicators,visualtek closed circuit TVs for magnifying regular text(for low vision persons), large print type writers, special; track tape recorders, computers that have adaptable equipments such as voice eyes, computer workstations with a large trackball mouse and above all affectionate and understandable guides.

Unique activities of Karur central library and Dr.S. Raghavan's contribution to the library

Let authorities in principle take decision to establish knowledge centers so as to make the disabled feel they are no way different from others..!!!

UNIQUE ACTIVITIES OF KARUR CENTRAL LIBRARY AND Dr.S. RAGHAVAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY IN DECCAN CHRONICLE

Myself Dr.S.Raghavan was requested by the Ex Director of NIT Trichy Dr.P.SUBRAMANIAM to take over the LIBRARAY as OVERALL COORDINATOR as instructed by the Dr.ANAND COMMITTEE (appoint a person who will improve the library in war footing basis)
Since that day, I have taken interest in LIBRARIES. And I became member in ILA, IELTS etc. I was Instrumental in the building of the NEW MULTI STORIED building of the present LIBRARY of NIT, Trichy.

In Deccan Chronicle,I brought the UNIQUE ACTIVITIES OF KARUR CENTRAL LIBRARY in which I am one of the patrons.

Unique activities of Karur central library and Dr.S. Raghavan's contribution to the library in Deccan Chronicle

Dr S RAGHAVAN

SENIOR MOST PROFESSOR,

MICROWAVE ENGINEERING GROUP,

EX. OVERALL COORDINATOR OF NIT-TRICHY LIBRARY

N I T TRICHY

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