The primary objective of Oriental Library Association is to serve as a professional body that advocates for writers,publishers,book-readers,library readers,library professionals etc.
The main objective of the association is to provide a unified voice for its members.
Further,the other objectives of the association are :
Influencing Policy : Lobbying goverments or regulatory bodies to create laws and policies that favor the member’s interests.
Public Awareness : Shaping public opinion or industry standard to promote the value of the members’ work or cause.
Skill Enhancement : Organizing workshops,webnairs,and conferences to keep members updated on new technologies,digital archiving,and information management trends.
Literacy Promotion : Working to advance literacy level across both urban and rural areas of india.
Literacy Support : Providing a Platform for emerging writers to publish their worksand supporting the publication of research-based writings on various subjects.
Capacity Building : Investing in programs that benefit the wider community (e.g., literacy drives,public infrastructure projects,or charitable aid).
Knowledge Dissemination : Publishing professional journals,newsletters,and white papers to share research findings and innovative case studies.
Preservation : Safeguarding historical,cultural,or artistic heritage.
Problem-Solving : Serving as a forum for members to discuss common challenges and develop collective solutions.
Innovation Lab : Providing a platform to test new concepts in information science before they are implemented on a wider scale.
Public Awareness : Launching compaigns to demonstrate the value of librarians as a vital community anchors,educational institutions,and democratic spaces.
Community Engagement : Operating as a youth-oriented club to encourage learning,networking,and advocacy among the younger generation.
”Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”–Margaret Fuller
”A word after a word after a word is power.”
–Margaret Atwood
”One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”–Carl Sagan
”Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”–Napoleon Bonaparte
”A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”–Charles Baudelaire
”When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”– Maya Angelou
”Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”
– Kate Di Camillo
”I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
–Emma Thompson
”It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”– John Waters
”Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.”– Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz
”Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
– Lena Dunham
”If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling
”I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”– Benedict Cumberbatch
”Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
”We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
– Joan Didion
”Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
– Jeanette Winterson
”A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
– David Sedaris
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Cicero
”The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
– Rene Descartes
”That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri
”I love the way that each book — any book — is its own journey. You open it, and off you go…” – Sharon Creech
”Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.”
– Malorie Blackman
”I don’t read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” – Elbert Hubbard
”Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” – Louisa May Alcott
”A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin
”Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” – Sir Francis Bacon
”Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” – Joyce Carol Oates
”A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
”Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
– Dave Eggers
”One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” – Cassandra Clare
”A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
– Garrison Kellor
”Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
– Charles W. Eliot
”Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?”
– Christopher Paolini
”Once you’ve read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour
”The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” – Ray Bradbury
