The Karnataka Legislative Assembly secretariat has set up an e-library, with a collection of more than 3 lakh titles, for the benefit of legislators and research students. The library has collection of assembly proceedings, records pertaining to governments several decades back, and thousands of other books.
Inaugurating the library on Wednesday, speaker KG Bopaiah advised legislators to make better use of the library and come prepared to participate in assembly debates. Research students too can avail of the facilities of the library, he added.
The library division of the the Karnataka Legislative Assembly secretariat has made available all the proceedings of the house to the visitors. The library has more than 49,000 honorary copies, 8,841 reports, 19,600 proceedings of both the houses of state legislature and 1.30 lakh books and periodicals. The library has also collection of 10,000 volumes of vernacular literature. The state had recently celebrated the 60th year of the legislative assembly. The first session of the assembly was held in 1952.
Chief minister Jagadish Shettar on Wednesday inaugurated the renovated library, located in the ground floor of Vidhana Soudha.
The library department of the secretariat will establish a separate division on Gandhian literature.
