SFIT NDLI Club: Quiz 2: The Copyright Challenge on April 23, 2021

 

April 23: World Book and Copyright Day

World Book and Copyright Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books - a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. On this occasion, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three major sectors of the book industry - publishers, booksellers and libraries, select the World Book Capital for a year to maintain, through its own initiatives, the impetus of the Day’s celebrations. 

23 April is a symbolic date in world literature. It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. This date was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books.

By championing books and copyright, UNESCO stands up for creativity, diversity and equal access to knowledge, with the work across the board – from the Creative Cities of Literature network to promoting literacy and mobile learning and advancing Open Access to scientific knowledge and educational resources. With the active involvement of all stakeholders: authors, publishers, teachers, librarians, public and private institutions, humanitarian NGOs and the mass media, and all those who feel motivated to work together in this world celebration of books and authors, World Book and Copyright Day has become a platform to rally together millions of people all around the world.

At SFIT LIRC:

To commemorate the authors and celebrate "Reading", the SFIT LIRC arranged an in-house exhibition of classics.

We also displayed the information of Gyanpeeth Award Winners.

Year	Recipient(s)	Language(s)
1965 (1st)	G. Sankara Kurup	Malayalam
1966 (2nd)	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	Bengali
1967 (3rd) †	Umashankar Joshi	Gujarati
1967 (3rd) †	Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu'	Kannada
1968 (4th)	Sumitranandan Pant	Hindi
1969 (5th)	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu
1970 (6th)	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Telugu
1971 (7th)	Bishnu Dey	Bengali
1972 (8th)	Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'	Hindi
1973 (9th) †	D. R. Bendre	Kannada
1973 (9th) †	Gopinath Mohanty	Odia
1974 (10th)	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Marathi
1975 (11th)	Akilan	Tamil
1976 (12th)	Ashapoorna Devi	Bengali
1977 (13th)	K. Shivaram Karanth	Kannada
1978 (14th)	Sachchidananda Vatsyayan	Hindi
1979 (15th)	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Assamese
1980 (16th)	S. K. Pottekkatt	Malayalam
1981 (17th)	Amrita Pritam	Punjabi
1982 (18th)	Mahadevi Varma	Hindi
1983 (19th)	Masti Venkatesha Iyengar	Kannada
1984 (20th)	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Malayalam
1985 (21st)	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1986 (22nd)	Sachidananda Routray	Odia
1987 (23rd)	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj'	Marathi
1988 (24th)	C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1989 (25th)	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1990 (26th)	Vinayaka Krishna Gokak	Kannada
1991 (27th)	Subhash Mukhopadhyay	Bengali
1992 (28th)	Naresh Mehta	Hindi
1993 (29th)	Sitakant Mahapatra	Odia
1994 (30th)	U. R. Ananthamurthy	Kannada
1995 (31st)	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Malayalam
1996 (32nd)	Mahasweta Devi	Bengali
1997 (33rd)	Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu
1998 (34th)	Girish Karnad	Kannada
1999 (35th) †	Nirmal Verma	Hindi
1999 (35th) †	Gurdial Singh	Punjabi
2000 (36th)	Mamoni Raisom Goswami	Assamese
2001 (37th)	Rajendra Shah	Gujarati
2002 (38th)	Jayakanthan	Tamil
2003 (39th)	Vinda Karandikar	Marathi
2004 (40th)	Rehman Rahi	Kashmiri
2005 (41st)	Kunwar Narayan	Hindi
2006 (42nd) †	Ravindra Kelekar	Konkani
2006 (42nd) †	Satya Vrat Shastri	Sanskrit
2007 (43rd)	O. N. V. Kurup	Malayalam
2008 (44th)	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'	Urdu
2009 (45th) †	Amarkant	Hindi
2009 (45th) †	Sri Lal Sukla	Hindi
2010 (46th)	Chandrashekhara Kambara	Kannada
2011 (47th)	Pratibha Ray	Odia
2012 (48th)	Ravuri Bharadhwaja	Telugu
2013 (49th)	Kedarnath Singh	Hindi
2014 (50th)	Bhalchandra Nemade	Marathi
2015 (51st)	Raghuveer Chaudhari	Gujarati
2016 (52nd)	Shankha Ghosh	Bengali
2017 (53rd)	Krishna Sobti	Hindi
2018 (54th)	Amitav Ghosh	English

References:

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldbookday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnanpith_Award

Book Donation Drive from April 10 to 22, 2015

“GOT BOOKS YOU DON’T NEED,

DONATE TO OTHERS WHO WISH TO READ!”

Rather than giving a financial contribution or donation, SFIT Library, Borivli,  plans to forge a long-term relationship with the people around, through the mutual love for books on the eve of ‘World Book and Copyright Day’, which falls on April 23.

In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors.

We have always attempted to develop a reading culture among the people and now we are keen to harness the same enthusiasm to the persons who are not as fortunate as we are.

The aim of this initiative is solely to connect with the people outside the Institute and share the resources with them.

For the purpose, the ‘SFIT Social Responsibility Cell’ and ‘SFIT Library’ have decided to organize a “Book Donation Drive” in the campus from April 9 to 22, 2015. We all have so many un-used books lying in our book-shelves. Some are read, re-read; others have no foreseen use.

You are requested to donate such books and other new books for this event and make it a success. Books related to engineering subjects, educational, general and novels are most welcome.

Please ensure the following points so that your donation of a book may be considered:

ü The books should be in good reading condition.

ü They should not have any obscene content.

ü Photocopies of original books are a strict no-no.

Collection Dates: 10^th April to 22^nd April, 2015

Collection Points: Boxes will be available outside the Canteen (Ground floor) and the Library (2nd floor) for your valuable donation of books.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THE BOOK DONATION DRIVE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE!