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dated April 2, 1953: MALA Silver Jubilee

A souvenir, produced to mark the Silver Jubilee of the Madras Library Association to be celebrated in the P.S. High School, Brodies Road, Madras, on the 4th, recalled the origin and growth of the Association. In December 1927, the Indian National Congress held its session in Madras. A session of the All India Library Congress was held alongside. K.V. Krishnaswami Aiyar was the Chairman, and S.R. Ranganathan, University Librarian, took part. On 31st January 1928, a meeting under the Presidentship of V.V. Srinivasa Iyengar decided to set up the Madras Library Association, with Mr. Krishnaswami Aiyar as its first President. Substantial support for the Association was secured from influential persons and the vast intelligentsia. The same year a School of Librarianship was started, and MALA strove to get the open access system introduced in libraries with lending of books free of charge.

The need to improve school libraries was recognised, and a series of lectures by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan was arranged in the Teachers' College, Saidapet.

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