Three years on, State’s heritage library remains in suspended animation

The foyer of State Central Library that has been under conservation effort for the past three years. | Photo Credit: Serish Nanisetti On National Librarians Day, a garlanded photograph of S.R. Ranganathan stands in the first-floor corridor of the State Central Library. A little further down, about a dozen readers sit hunched over their books. The whizzing sound of spray-painting echoes through the heritage building, which has been under repair for three years. “The work has been inconsistent. At times it moves quickly, and then at other times it slows down. We are disappointed with the pace,” says a library official, unwilling to speak on record.“I come here to study but sit in this shaded area because it is quiet. I bring my own books as the library mostly has textbooks and not the study