strong values, transparent char-

acter and willpower to try, try

and succeed. Your Altitude =

Your Attitude + Your Aptitude.

Wishing you the very best,

Yours bookingly,

K.Ramasamy, Librarian

There was a man who made

living selling balloons at a fair.

He had all colors of balloons

Including red, yellow, green.

Whenever business was slow,

he would release a helium filled

balloons into the air and when

the children saw it go up, they

all wanted to buy one. They

would come up to him, buy a

balloon and his sales would go

up again. He continues this

process all day. One day, he felt

something tugging his jacket.

He turned around and saw a

little boy who asked,” If you

release a black balloon, would

that also fly?” Moved by the

boy’s concern, the man replied

with empathy.” Son, it is not the

Color of the balloon, it is what

inside that makes it go up.”

The same thing applies to our

lives. It is what is inside that

counts. And what’s inside of us

that makes us go up is our atti-

tude. (Courtesy: You Can Win

by Shiv Khera). So, dear stu-

dents, don't’ get worried about

your physical appearance. Build

Library Statistics for the Quarter October-December, 2010

LIBRARY, KV NARIMEDU MADURAI

October-December, 2010 VOL.:01 ISSUE:02

FIESTA THE QUARTERLY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER

PATRON

Shri.V.Rajagopal, Principal, KV NO.1, MADURAI

EDITORIAL BOARD

CHIEF EDITOR

Mr.K.Ramasamy, Librarian, KV No.1 Madurai

CO-EDITOR

Shri.T S.Srinivasan, TGT(Eng.), KV No.1 Madurai

Inside this issue:

From the Editor’s Pen 1

Library Statistics 1

National Book Week 2010 2

Readers Club 3

Release of Fiesta 3

Book Review 4

Fresh Picks 4

From the editor’s pen

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STATISTICS OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

NO OF BOOKS IN STOCK 17201 17201 17201

NO. OF MAGAZINES 70 70 70

NO. OF NEWSPAPERS 04 04 04

NO. OF BOOKS ISSUED 1071 2537 1723

NO. OF BOOKS PURCHASED NIL NIL NIL

A C T I V I T Y S P E I C A L I S S U E

INAUGURATION

The National Book Week is celebrated by all the book lovers in India from 14-20 November every year.

Library @ KV Narimedu Madurai also celebrated the NBW 2010 with all vigour and enthusiasm.

The NBW 2010 was in-a u g u r a t e d b y Shri.Muralidharan, PGT(Maths), I/C Principal, K V M a d u r a i o n 15/11/2010 at 9:00 AM by lighting the lamp and

wishing the readers of the Vidyalaya the very best.

The prayer was offered by Mr.Madhusudanan, Music Teacher.

Kum.Leonisha, VIIIC recited a poem on Books.

Kum.K.Vishnu Priya, IX D delivered a speech on the topic ‘Books are the best friends”.

MORNING ASSEMBLY PROGRAMMES

During the week-long

celebrations, a couple of programes were pre-sented as special items in the Morning As-semlby.

O n 1 6 / 1 1 / 2 0 1 0 , Mas.Deepu Vijay Gan-dhi ,VIII C recited two poems on books. On 18/11/2010, Mas.Sridhar and Mas.Nagarajan of VIII C conducted a spe-cial book quiz.

O n 2 0 / 1 1 / 2 0 1 0 , Kum.Tharini, VIII C gave a talk on ‘ Jules Verne-a science fiction writer”.

A Book exhibi-tion was organized on the library hall on 18/11/2010 to enlighten the library users on the new arrivals which had reached our library recently. These books were purchased for our library from the book fair held in Madurai. The exhibition was inaugurated b y o u r P r i n c i p a l Mr.V.Rajagopal. All the students of the classes VI to XII were taken to the exhibition.

NATIONAL BOOK WEEK 14-20 NOV.2010

BOOK EXHIBITION

COMPETITIONS

ESSAY WRITING(18/11/2010)

Juniors

S Meenakshi,8 B (I) M Nitish Kumar, 7 B (II); C Seemavathy, 8 B & T S Joshita, 8 B (III)

Seniors

K Sharmila, X D ( I); R Swarna, X C (II); K Vishnupriya, IX D (III)

BOOK MARK DESIGN-ING (Seniors)(20/11/2010)

R V Shanmathi, X B (I);

S Dhivya, X A (II) K Sharmila, X D (III)

DRAWING & PAINTING (Juniors) (20/11/2010)

A Zavid Jaffir, 8 D (I); R Raj Praveen, 7 D & R Sangeeth Raj, 7 B (II); K Dheepika, 7 A (III)

The prizes were distrib-uted to the winners in the solemn Prize Distribu-tion-cum-Valedictory function of NBW 2010 held on 23/11/2010.

As a part and parcel of the NBW cele-brations, 2010, various competitions were or-ganized for the students.

POEM WRITING (16/11/2010)

Juniors

K.Kesavanandhini, 7D(I); K.Poornimadevi, 7 D(II); R Sangeeth Raj, 7 B (III)

Seniors S.Divya, XA & M Vahidha, X D (I); A L Ajaykumar, IX C & Vigna Raja Priya, X B(II)

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Inauguration and Morning Assembly Programmes

Readers Club—A club

for the readers,

by the readers and

of the Readers

of KV Narimedu, Madurai was inaugura ted on 27/11/2010 in the inaugural ceremony held in the Library hall. The club was inaugu-rated by our Principal Shri.V.Rajagopal by lighting the lamp. The invocation song was offered by Mr.Madusudhanan, Music Teacher. All the participants w e r e w e l c omed b y

M r s . S han t h i , TGT(English), a Co-ordinator.

Mr.K.Ramasamy, Librar-ian presented a briefing on the aims, structure and functioning of the club.

In the ceremony, Mas.Srivatsan of IX A delivered a speech on ‘Importance of Reading’; Mas.B.Narasimhan of VIII C enlightened the audi-ence about ‘Jules Verne’; Kum.Nivedhitha, VIII C presented a book review of ‘J K Rowling’s HP Se-

ries’ and Kum.Abiramai of Class IX C gave a talk on ‘ What do the Books want to speak with you?.

Our Principal blessed and wished all the par-ticipants the very best.

Mr.T.S.Srinivasan, TGT(Eng.), a Co-ordinator proposed vote of thanks.

In the RC programme held on 18/12/2010, the members were divided into 5 groups with group names and leaders.

The inaugural issue of the Quarterly Library Newsletter(QLN) of KV Narimedu, Madurai Library was re-leased by the office bearers of the Par-ents Teachers Association of our Vid-yalaya (Mr.Bheem Singh, Secretary) on 15/12/2010 amidst the KVS Foundation Day Celebrations.

The Principal and the office-bearers of the PTA placed on the record their ap-preciation on such a novel initiative and wished that ‘FIESTA’ would serve as a right medium to publish the library activities and the creative ideas of the students and the staff of this Vidyalaya.

INAUGURATION OF READERS CLUB

RELEASE OF ‘FIESTA’ - THE INAUGURAL ISSUE

PHOTO GALLERY

Page 3 VOL.:01 ISSUE:02

Office Bearers 2010-2011

Convener: Mr.K.Ramasamy,

Librarian, KV Madurai

Co-ordinators: TGTs(Eng)

1) Mr.B.Kumar,

2) Mr.T.Srinivasan &

3) Mrs.Shanthi

Student Office Bearers

President: Vishnu Prasad, 9D

Vice-President:

K Vishnu Priya, 9

Secretary: A P Gayathri, IX B Jt.Secretary: Abirami, IX B

Welcome to the World of Creativity !! Creative, inspiring, interesting and fresh arti-cles, poems, essays, quotes on the topics ‘Books, Reading and Library’ are invited from the students for the publication of the same in our Library Quarterly Newsletter ‘FIESTA’. The interested students may e-mail or sub-mit a soft copy of their contributions to the editors. All the members of the staff are also invited

LIBRARY, KV NARIMEDU MADURAI

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This tale of an Indian servant develops into a complex and in-sightful story as he struggles against the limitations of culture to achieve success at any price.

The son of a rickshaw driver, Balram is removed from school at an esarly age so that he can work to earn money for his family. Frustrated by his miserable life, Balram looks for opportunities to improve his lot. His chance comes when he secures a posi-tion as a driver to the son of the local landlord. In Delhi his naive country beliefs are challenged by the cut-throat network of city ser-vants, the disdain of the upper classes and his own experiences and perceptions.

Balram appears at different times worldly wise and rustically naive,

Book: The White Tiger

Author: Aravind Adiga ISBN: 8172237456

ISBN-13: 9788172237455

Binding: Hardcover Publishing Date: 2010 Publisher: Harper Collins Pub. Edition: 01 Number of Pages: 321 Language: English

Price : Rs.352/- (HB) Rs.221/-(PBK)

honest and corrupt, subservient and unbearably arrogant. At times he rigidly adheres to the correct standards of behaviour, while also being distressingly dismissive of his amoral re-sponse and actions. His story reveals a shocking disregard for the sanctity of human life and basic human rights from individu-als at all levels of society.

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