Your access to Online Libraries
Libraries have always been a dear part of the city life but now the emerging trend of online libraries will just be a very welcome change.
Oscar Wilde once rightly said, “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” For sure! Most of us find it an ordeal to return library books. As if just reading a book, falling in love with it, and then having to return it is not bad enough, you almost always have to suffer roaring traffic jams and parking woes to add salt to the tender wounds.
EasyLib.com is Bangalore’s first online rental library. It is home to hundreds of authors in every conceivable genre that ranges from fiction, non fiction, and children’s titles, to self-help, philosophy and best-sellers. All you have to do is register online, browse through their amazing collection, and select your titles. Once that is done the books are delivered and even picked up from your doorstep. The best part is that you can be anywhere in the city and still avail of this facility, and all for a very reasonable price. Their user-friendly website allows you to browse, reserve and even suggest titles that you would like to read.
Librarywala, a Mumbai-based online rental library, too, has opened its Bangalore version, and promises to offer similar facilities. For ‘smart reading’, as they call it, all you need to do is select your city, Pune, Mumbai or Bangalore and just move on. Avail the scheme that will get your monthly fees waived off if you refer five members like you to the site. Moreover, you could keep them as long as you want. No late charges. Prices and plans are aplenty. Take your pick.
Other libraries that have online access, particularly of their catalogues, include British Library and NLSIU. For the academically-inclined, there are the Raman Research Institute and Indian Statistical Institute that allow browsers to read journals online.
Also academic institutions like Bangalore University, Christ College and RV College of Engineering have jumped into this digital bandwagon, and offer students online access of their library.
The trend is catching on and fast at that. User-friendly online libraries in the city have many takers which does fit in the bill given the city’s IT image. True most would still prefer browsing through those endless racks through wafts of crisp paper smell. However, laziness coupled with inconveniences tends to somehow inevitably settle amidst city-dwellers. As long as the reading habits remain on the upper portion of the graph, who’s complaining?
Some of these online libraries could be sourced at the following sites,
http://www.easylib.com/
http://library.britishcouncil.org.in/Profiles.asp?id=BL
http://library.bub.ernet.in/sub/balnet.html
http://www.christuniversity.in/secmenudisp.php?MID=10
Oscar Wilde once rightly said, “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” For sure! Most of us find it an ordeal to return library books. As if just reading a book, falling in love with it, and then having to return it is not bad enough, you almost always have to suffer roaring traffic jams and parking woes to add salt to the tender wounds.
EasyLib.com is Bangalore’s first online rental library. It is home to hundreds of authors in every conceivable genre that ranges from fiction, non fiction, and children’s titles, to self-help, philosophy and best-sellers. All you have to do is register online, browse through their amazing collection, and select your titles. Once that is done the books are delivered and even picked up from your doorstep. The best part is that you can be anywhere in the city and still avail of this facility, and all for a very reasonable price. Their user-friendly website allows you to browse, reserve and even suggest titles that you would like to read.
Librarywala, a Mumbai-based online rental library, too, has opened its Bangalore version, and promises to offer similar facilities. For ‘smart reading’, as they call it, all you need to do is select your city, Pune, Mumbai or Bangalore and just move on. Avail the scheme that will get your monthly fees waived off if you refer five members like you to the site. Moreover, you could keep them as long as you want. No late charges. Prices and plans are aplenty. Take your pick.
Other libraries that have online access, particularly of their catalogues, include British Library and NLSIU. For the academically-inclined, there are the Raman Research Institute and Indian Statistical Institute that allow browsers to read journals online.
Also academic institutions like Bangalore University, Christ College and RV College of Engineering have jumped into this digital bandwagon, and offer students online access of their library.
The trend is catching on and fast at that. User-friendly online libraries in the city have many takers which does fit in the bill given the city’s IT image. True most would still prefer browsing through those endless racks through wafts of crisp paper smell. However, laziness coupled with inconveniences tends to somehow inevitably settle amidst city-dwellers. As long as the reading habits remain on the upper portion of the graph, who’s complaining?
Some of these online libraries could be sourced at the following sites,
http://www.easylib.com/
http://library.britishcouncil.org.in/Profiles.asp?id=BL
http://library.bub.ernet.in/sub/balnet.html
http://www.christuniversity.in/secmenudisp.php?MID=10
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