New library at Alliance

Alliance Française de Bangalore is set to open its renovated library that holds 7,500 books, a media centre and a screening space on April 22.

According a release, books will be in French, English and Kannada. “The library was first created in 1980 when the AFB current centre was first opened and is renovated for the first time. Other salient features of the library, named after French writer Simone de Beauvoir, include a dedicated room for quiet reading and research, as well as a newly created screening space dedicated to the Late Kannada writer S.L. Bhyrappa,” said the release.