Story; Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Editor in Chief ||
The northern regional library showed loved to its patrons by organizing an eye screening exercise in partnership with friends of the eye. This exercise was done on Friday 14th, February 2020 to mark Val’s day
The director of the library, Mr. Aaron Kuwornu in an interview with Sanatu Zambang said the exercise was to expressed love to their patrons. They believe that their patrons need good eyesight for reading and that is why the theme for the exercise is ‘’ maintaining good eyesight in transforming minds through library services’’
This year has been declared as the year of learning by the Ghana Library Authority. For this reason, the northern regional library has come out with a series of activities that will encourage reading among the people of the region. These activities include read to scale, mobile library, revamping of the community’s libraries, personality reading, children’s corner, etc.
The mobile library has started already in the Sagnarigu Municipality with five schools benefiting. This project is about bringing the library to the doorsteps of students in communities who do not have library facilities in their school using vans with books and computers.
This is to enable deprived children to have a feel of what the library is and how they can use it to learn. These kids are thought how to read and also use computers.
The library authority would like to scale up this project to other communities so that no child is left behind with support from the general public, NGOs, and philanthropists
