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    "id": 1051561,
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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": "supposed to be disseminated in various forms. If you look at a number of countries, you will find that we have different kinds of libraries. Libraries disseminate historical information such as origins of societies and origins of man and all species in the planet. Libraries update the current generations about their origin. You will note that cultural libraries that are famous in China, USA and various parts of the world assist the current generation to learn from what the earlier generations did. If you look at the various presidential libraries in the US, each leader, starting from the reigns of President Truman, Eisenhower and others have had good presidential libraries that act as repositories for what they did while in office. This enables the current leaders and generation to learn from them on how they handled particular crises and issues that affected them. This Bill will not only help us to get knowledge, but to learn and get information on what has been ongoing in our societies. We can get a lot of information from libraries. A number of innovations and inventions have been done as a result of online journals and inventors have got a lot of information through the library system. As we talk about the old culture of reading books and magazines, there is a lot of information on audio libraries. You have alluded to our national library in Upper Hill, which will assist individuals who do not have money to access online library system to get information for their own use. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as a country, there are certain things that we must consider. As we establish libraries across the country, they should not be idling centres. I believe the establishment of libraries will change the thinking, behaviour and the reading culture of our society. Our reading culture as a country is very low and very few people, even within our set up, read. If we establish the National Library Services across the counties, people around markets and small towns in our constituencies will know the importance of reading and gaining information. Some individuals in the villages cannot read. They can avail audio information, for example, on the Bible and the Quran to them. Those who cannot read can get information through the Braille system. This is an important Bill. Let the Government invest in it. If the Government is going to put a lot of resources in it, it will enable young people who have no resources to come up with new innovations. A number of young Kenyans, especially the innovators, have developed their innovations through university libraries. I remember the young Kenyans who developed the M- PESA money transfer system. That was a product of young students. So, I am requesting, as much as we are talking about spreading those library systems, let us make sure that we put a lot of money in it so that, at the end of the day, we have enough of those services across the constituencies and villages to enable this country move forward. In as much as we want to put up libraries across the country, let us also plan to have national museums besides them so that they also serve as centres of knowledge and information. I support."
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