An appeal to British Council

By Labiba, Uttara, Dhaka
12 August 2004, 18:00 PM
One of the best libraries in Dhaka is the British Council Library. I have been a member of it since class-III . Even my uncles are members of this library. They remember with relish the days when it only cost Tk 50 to become a member there. The library has furnished me with different books all these years; with the help of those books I have tackled numerous school projects, exams, science fairs etc.

A year ago I moved to Uttara. Since then it has become very difficult to visit the library. The "journey" to the library takes two hours and the return takes another two hours. Uttara holds a large number of English medium schools. I am a student of class-X in one of these schools. My classmates all want to be members of the library because of the amount of GCE textbooks, revision books it has. But they are discouraged by its distance and mainly by the time it takes to reach the library.

The British Council should open a branch of its library in Uttara. The branch will help the pupils here to get information on the exams, syllabus, question papers, and to get access to the latest books.

I have consulted a lot of people and they all share my idea and are eager to see a response from the Library in this regard.