Udaipur : Azim Premji University will hold an exhibition of its Schoolbooks Archive, an open-access digital repository of over 7900 books and related materials, along with a few hundred print copies of archived books from July 19-21 at Udaipur, Rajasthan. The three-day exhibition — ‘Schoolbooks and Related Documents: A Journey through Two Centuries’ — will be held jointly with the Vidya Bhawan Society.
In November 2021, Azim Premji University unveiled the SchoolbooksArchive (https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/), an attempt to collect and curate schoolbooks and related documents that have been in use in India and the sub-continent over the last two hundred years. The growing collection includes textbooks, anthologies, reference works such as dictionaries, glossaries, atlases, works on school management, pedagogy, psychology and health manuals, and scores of curriculum documents for school and teacher education programmes.
With its focus on history and the contemporary world, the repository is expected to benefit teachers, teacher educators, students in teacher education courses, curriculum and textbook developers, illustrators, and researchers on various aspects of school education.
PROGRAMME AGENDA :
Exhibition: July 19—21, 2022; 11AM-5PM
Venue: Govindram Seksaria Teachers’ College, Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur
July 19: 11AM: Inauguration of the exhibition and talk by Professor Maheep Bhatnagar, Former
Professor of Zoology and Dean of Faculty of Science, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur
Topic: Schoolbooks Archive: Importance and Applications
1130 AM: Introduction to the Schoolbooks Archive by Sidlingappa M Huded, Assistant
Librarian, Azim Premji University and Varadarajan Narayanan, Professor, School of
Education, Azim Premji University.
July 20: 11AM: Lecture by Professor Sadhna Saxena, Former Professor, Central Institute of
Education, University of Delhi.
Topic: What is a quality science textbook?
