The Central Library of the North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong is organising a two-day NEHU Book Fair from November 6 to 7 in the Multi-Use Convention Hall of the university here.
The book fair will be formally inaugurated by NEHU vice chancellor Prof. Prabha Shankar Shukla.
The NEHU Book Fair will essentially be a display of books by a group of reputed publishers and vendors for promoting sales and stimulating interest in their existing stock and recent publications, in addition to further enhancing the reading habit among the academic community and the society as a whole.
It would be relevant to recollect the humble beginnings of the NEHU Central Library which started with a collection of 600 books in 1973, and has now become a premier university library of the North East region of India with a collection of about three lakh printed volumes supplemented by an enormous volume of e-resources.
The NEHU Central Library at Shillong and the NEHU Campus Library at Tura together cater to the needs of the students, research scholars, faculty, administrators and staff of the university.
With the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 and the entailing curricular transformation, the NEHU Central Library felt the need to organise a book fair to enable the faculty members, research scholars and students of the university and its affiliated colleges to visit, review and recommend the books relevant to their specialised interests and academic pursuits.
The specific objective of this book fair is, therefore, to connect the university fraternity with the relevant and recent publications of leading publishers.
With 17 publishers, distributors and booksellers participating, the NEHU Book Fair will provide an open platform to the faculty members, research scholars and students of the university including those from the affiliated colleges to get acquainted with the latest edition of the published books in their subject areas.
It will also give a chance to the publishers to showcase their front list as well as generate interest about their backlist.
Visitors to this book fair can buy or recommend books of their choice which they otherwise might not pick up from online stores.
