Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 4

Enhancement of Social Cohesion through Community Library

1Librarian, Central Library, Netaji Mahavidyalaya, Arambagh, West Bengal, India

2Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

3Librarian, Central Library, AKPC Mahavidyalaya, Bengai, West Bengal, India

*Corresponding author e-mail id: basudebadhikary@rediffmail.com

**sarmionly@rediffmail.com

Online published on 19 October, 2016.

Abstract

In the present world, the chief concern of all countries is to minimise the societal difference between people and to provide a sustainable development to all of them. All social organisations are working towards achieving the objectives. In this respect, a term is being used repetitively by social development theorists and policy-makers-social cohesion. In this paper, we will introduce the concept of social cohesion and find out the cohesion indicators. In the later part, we will introduce another social organisation-community library. Then, we willtry to find out how these social cohesion indicators can be enhanced by the activities of community library.

Keywords

Social cohesion, Cohesion indicators, Community library, Trust, Social inclusion, Norm, Exclusion