📚 World Book and Copyright Day -23rd April 2025: Report

Date: 23rd April 2025

Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: 2nd Floor, B Wing, LIRC

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✨ Event Overview

On the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, SFIT Library organized a Book Exhibition and Takeaway as well as a Quiz on Plagiarism. The initiative aimed to cultivate a strong reading habit, educate students about the importance of respecting intellectual property, and highlight the significance of honest academic work.

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🎯 Objectives

• Encourage and foster reading habits among students.

• Promote awareness about copyright issues.

• Educate students on plagiarism and its prevention.

• Enable sharing of knowledge through book donations from staff and ex-students.

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👥 Participation

• Book & Magazine Takeaway: 82 Beneficiaries

• Quiz on Plagiarism: 68 Responses

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🏁 Outcome

The initiative was well-received and sparked interest in both reading and academic integrity. Suggestions were made to organize more such events, to further engage students and staff.

📖 Celebration of World Book and Copyright Day

 

Date: April 23, 2025

Venue: Learning and Information Resource Centre

Each year, World Book and Copyright Day reminds us of the profound impact books have on shaping ideas, preserving culture, and respecting intellectual creativity. This year, the SFIT Library, in collaboration with the SFIT NDLI Club, is proud to host a vibrant celebration to honor books, authors, and the importance of copyright.

📚 Highlights of the Celebration:

📘 1. Book Exhibition & Takeaway Corner

Explore a specially curated collection of books across genres—ranging from timeless classics to modern thought-leaders.

What’s more? Selected books will be available for a takeaway—yes, you read that right! You can pick a book to keep, read, and cherish, absolutely free. It's our way of spreading the joy of reading.

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Cicero

❓ 2. Quiz on Understanding Plagiarism

Organized by the SFIT NDLI Club, this short and engaging quiz aims to spread awareness about plagiarism—what it is, why it matters, and how to avoid it in academic and professional life.
✅ Open to all students, faculty, and staff
🎁 E-certificates for all participants
🕒 Duration: Just 5–10 minutes
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/49va8wv3

Let’s build a culture of academic honesty and originality—because every great idea deserves credit.

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We invite every member of the SFIT family to join us in this celebration. Whether you're a lifelong reader, a curious learner, or someone discovering the joy of books—there’s something here for you.

📅 Join us in the Library on April 23rd
🎉 Let’s celebrate the written word and the rights of those who create it.

#WorldBookDay #SFITLibrary #SFITNDLIClub #ReadRespectReflect #CopyrightMatters #SayNoToPlagiarism

NDLI Quiz: Understanding Plagiarism

📚 SFIT NDLI Club Presents: Quiz on Understanding Plagiarism
🗓️ On the Occasion of World Book and Copyright Day

In the spirit of celebrating the power of books and the importance of intellectual property, the SFIT NDLI Club invites you to participate in a short, insightful quiz on plagiarism awareness.

🔍 Why take the quiz?
Plagiarism isn't just copying—it's a violation of creativity and ethics. This quiz will help you understand what constitutes plagiarism, how to avoid it, and why it matters in both academic and creative spaces.

🎯 Who can participate?
All students, faculty, and staff of SFIT are encouraged to join!

📝 Quiz Duration: 5-10 minutes
🏅 E-certificates for all participants!

📌 Let's promote originality and respect for intellectual effort.
Take the quiz and be a part of the change!
👉https://tinyurl.com/49va8wv3

#SFITNDLIClub #WorldBookDay #CopyrightAwareness #SayNoToPlagiarism #ReadResponsibly

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