New EUROPA Stamp ..

To be issued on 5 May 2010

Hi ! In today’s post here is a beautiful stamp to be issued by Poland to mark EUROPA 2010. The design of the stamp is very nice, showing a child reading the book as this year’s EUROPA theme is Children’s Books . I received a news item from Numismatic & Philatelic Society of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Read about the Hobby Library in Club News. This is all for Today…Till Next Post…Have a Great Time !

EUROPA 2010 – the Year of Children’s Books

Club News

Hobby library opened on World Book Day

Kanna English Medium School students participating in World Book and Copyright Day in Guntur on Friday.

GUNTUR: In a fitting gesture to celebrate the World Book and Copyright Day, the Guntur Numismatic and Philately Society in association with Kanna English Medium School, Railpeta, opened a ‘hobby library' on Friday with an initial collection of 300 informative books pertaining to several hobbies.

Involving school students from the Kanna English Medium School, where the Library has been houses, and students from other schools, who were members of this club, they propose to allow children to have access to some of the world's finest journals on philately, numismatics and book reading.

The Society members donated a number of world catalogues that are beyond the reach of ordinary stamp or coin collector at student level. These books allow the enthusiasts to ascertain their collection was genuine and also gather additional information so that they could develop thematic collections for competitions at district and State level.

After the school director Kanna Master formally declared the library open, former head of Department of Telugu at Acharya Nagarjuna University S. Gangappa, a well-known numismatist and Telugu/Sanskrit reader of AC College N. Kishore Babu and writer, Abhyudaya Rachayuthala Sangham State president Penugonda Lakshminarayana spoke.

A good book was like a good friend, which could enlighten us in many aspects and help us reach our goal by showing the right path and gave the examples of Maxim Gorky's Amma and Mahatma Gandhi's several books, which had helped people tread in right direction worldwide. The books not only provide us with knowledge from world over, they also build our personality, he opined.

Published in The Hindu, 24 April 2010