KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

The Best Reader awards ceremony which was first held nine years ago is a platform where books are lauded. The results of the Best Reader 2018 were summarized at Armenian State Pedagogical University last week. During the ceremony the best readers of the ten faculties of the University, as well as the best readers of the ASPU primary and high schools received certificates.

“A book is a boundless universe, and this very thinking makes books reach from one generation to another,” Tigran Petrosyants, Director of the ASPU Academic Library, said while greeting the students and specialists who are at the forefront of education. He added that ‘books will remain in the libraries as long as there is a reader.’ "No matter how technologically advanced we may be in the future, even if we start writing in the air, books will not die. The talks about the death of books are greatly exaggerated,” he said.

As a director of a library, Tigran Petrosyants assured everyone that students always use books and regularly visit the University library. Some of them even used printed materials (about 350 items in one year). Every year the library brochures tell about the best readers. Tens of thousands of printed books and electronic literature: this combination of old and new literature assists in organizing the teaching process in all specialties.

The deans of the faculties stressed the importance of the annual ceremony citing its peculiarities and considered the prize winners to be courageous as they evaluate books.

Marine Ohanyan, a third-year student of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, was named the best reader for 2018. Arine Mkhitaryan, a pupil of the ASPU Base College, and Hasmik Hovsepyan, a pupil of the ASPU Primary School N57, also received awards.

The deans of the ten faculties, principals of the base college and primary school, parents and relatives also congratulated the winners.

For the seventh year in a row, psychologist Albert Nalchajyan has been recognized as one of the top authors whose books have been in great demand. His books have been asked for about 25.000 times. Svetlana Iskandaryan, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences and Associate Professor, comes second on the list. Her books have been asked for 10.000 times.

The book fund of university’s reading hall consists of 509 996 items.