Library at University



Lesson 18

 

My University Library (learn more vocabulary)

Aligarh Muslim University is my university. It is located at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. It's one of the top central universities in India. It has a central library named Maulana Azad Library. It's the heart and soul of the university. It's been working as a vaccine for ignorance and shedding light on dark spaces since it was founded.

The library is the Asia's no 1 and second biggest library in the whole of Asia. It has about 1,800,000 books in it. It is surrounded by beautiful lawns and breathtaking gardens. It remains open for 18 hours. It possesses 6 sizeable reading halls, apart from having 8 small-scale reading rooms. It has a seating capacity of two thousand students or readers at a time. Eight thousand students, teachers and readers pay a visit to it on a daily basis for academic purpose. 

There's always a pin-drop silence in the library which is required for an undisturbed learning and intense focus on studies. 

The library quenches the thirst of thousands of its users or readers for knowledge by providing them with first-rate, rarest and oldest materials and facilitative, authentic and great books.

Our university library is used by students, teachers and research scholars to acquire knowledge for free. The library acts as a saver of money for those who cannot afford to buy expensive books. So it's not far from reality that the library is a money-saving storehouse of knowledge and information.

The most interesting thing about the library is that the location and atmosphere of it are perfect as it stands in the centre of the university.

One of the most intriguing facts about Maulana Azad Library is that it has the Latin translation of the Book of Optics (Kitab-Al-Manazir) written by the greatest physicist of the mediaeval Arab, Ibn-Al-Haytham, which got translated into Latin in the late twelfth century.

Maulana Azad Library is indeed the greatest library that promotes learning and provides countless high quality scholarly sources to its users or readers. It has been fulfilling its vision to cater to the academic needs of the university fraternity, and accomplishing its mission to furnish high-quality materials to enrich teaching and learning.


Words to Learn (learn more words here)

1. To locate→To be in or at some place

2. Central University→A university that's established by an act of parliament

3. Library→A building that's a storehouse of books at a school, college or university

4. Soul→The invisible and immaterial part of a human being

5. Vaccine→A substance  or medicine that's put into the body of a human being or animal in order to save them from some disease

6. Ignorance→Illiteracy or lack of knowledge 

7. To shed→To pour 

8. Dark→The absence of light or something with no light

9. Space→An area 

10. To found→To establish 

11. Since→From a time in the past until the time in the present

13. Whole→Entire or complete

14. To surround→To be adjacent to or near some place 

15. Lawns→Areas of grass 

16. Breathtaking→Amazing or beautiful

17. To possess→To have something to one's name 

Synonym→To own 

Antonym→To disown

18. Sizeable→Large 

Synonym→ Substantial

Antonym→Tiny 

19. Reading hall→A hall in which students read books 

20. Small-scale→Small 

21. Reading rooms→Rooms for study

22. Capacity→The ability to contain

23. Academic→ Educational 

24. To be required→To be necessary 

Synonym→To be compulsory

Antonym→To be optional

25. Undisturbed→ Without disturbance or not disturbed

26. Intense→ Extreme 

27. Focus→ Attention or concentration

28. To quench→To satisfy thirst with water 

29. Thirst→The feeling of needing to drink 

30. First-rate→ High quality

Synonym→Top quality

Antonym→Low quality

31. Rarest→Something not found in great numbers 

Synonym→Atypical 

Antonym→ Ordinary

32. Facilitative→Useful 

33. Authentic→Real 

Synonym→ Legitimate

Antonym→ Fake 

34. Research scholar→ A graduate who works in some specific field for some university

35. To acquire→To Attain 

Synonym→To get 

Antonym→To neglect or ignore

36. To afford→To have enough money to pay for something

37. Expensive→Costly 

Synonym→High-priced 

Antonym→Cheap or low-cost

38. Reality→The state of being real 

Antonym→Fantasy 

39. Money-saving→ Something that saves money

40. Storehouse→A building or structure built for storing goods 

41. Atmosphere→The envelope of gas that surrounds the earth

42. Mediaeval→Middle age 

43. Indeed→In fact 

Synonym→ Certainly

Antonym→ Doubtfully

44. To promote→ To encourage 

45. To provide→To give 

46. Countless→ Innumerable

47. High-quality→ Top quality

48. Scholarly→ Relating to education or study 

49. Sources→ A place where something comes from 

50. To fulfill→ To achieve 

51. Vision→The ability to see or plan for future 

52. To cater to needs→To satisfy needs 

53. Fraternity→A group of people who have the same profession 

54. To accomplish→To complete

55. Mission→A main purpose of some organization

56. To furnish→To provide someone with something

57. To enrich→To enhance 

Synonym→ To improve

Antonym→To spoil or deteriorate 


Idioms and Phrases to Learn

1. To be the heart and soul of→To be the most important part of something

2. To work as a vaccine for ignorance→ To wipe out or omit ignorance and illiteracy. 

3. To shed light on dark spaces→To spread education or educate people

4. Apart from.....In addition to or except for

5. To pay a visit to→To visit some place for a specific purpose

6. On a daily basis→ Regularly or daily

7. A pin-drop silence→A total silence 

8. To quench the thirst of someone for something→To satisfy the thirst for something or to fulfill a strong desire or eagerness to learn

9. To provide someone with something→To give something to someone

10. To be far from reality→To be unrealistic or to be something that's not real or fact 

11. To be a money-saving storehouse of knowledge→(Of library) to consist of books that everyone can use for free 

12. To be one of the most intriguing facts→To be something that arouses your curiosity or interest 

13. The greatest physicist of the mediaeval Arab→The best physicist of the middle age of the Arab country

14. To cater to the academic needs of the university fraternity→To satisfy the educational needs of the people associated with the university


Exercise 1

Can you recall the synonyms and antonyms of the following words? (click on here to learn more words)

1. To enhance 

2. To acquire

3. Authentic

4. Academic

5. To possess

6. Breathtaking

7. Ignorance

8. First-rate 

9. Rare 

10. Facilitative


Answer keys 1:- 

(Synonyms) 

1. To improve

2. To Attain

3. Real 

4. Educational

5. To own 

6. Amazing

7. Illiteracy

8. High quality 

9. Atypical

10. Useful


Answer keys 2:- 

(Antonyms) 

1. To spoil or deteriorate

2. To ignore or neglect

3. Fake 

4. Non-educational 

5. To disown

6. Unimpressive

7. Literacy

8. Low quality

9. Typical or ordinary 

10. Useless


Exercise 2

Do you understand the following phrases? ( click on here to learn more phrases)

1. To be the heart and soul of something 

2. To be far from reality

3. A pin-drop silence

4. On a daily basis

5. To pay a visit to some place


Answer keys:- 

1. To be the most important part of something

2. To be unrealistic 

3. A complete silence

4. Regularly or daily

5. To visit some place