Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 2

Home libraries: Keys for individual development and national enrichment

Lecturer in Library Science, Jawahar Bharati Degree College, Kavali, SPSR, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India

*Email id: venkatraojblibrarian@gmail.com

Online published on 19 September, 2025.

Abstract

Education is the root of all development in any field of human life. An educated person is a good citizen and a better tax payer. An educated nation is a stable country with a progressive society. Ancient scholars such as Bhartruhari have considered men without education strangely beasts. The chief source of education is libraries. They are of various sizes and are of various kinds. This paper proposes examining the importance of the usefulness of home libraries for children, building a home library and determining how they contribute to the progress of individuals and nations, silently and unseemly.

Keywords

Evolution of libraries, Manuscript, Print, Codex, Digital, Book deserts, Home libraries, Cultural tool kits, Cultural literacy