Award of Appreciation to Victor Melder
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Source : Dæhæna – March 2024
Victor Melder, the founder of the Victor Melder Library ( https:// www.vmsl-library.com/ ) in Melbourne and a willing supporter of Daehaena was given an Award of Appreciation by the Consul General for Sri Lanka in Melbourne at the Sri Lanka Independence Day commemoration.
Victor started his library in 1968 with one book and today it has a collection of over 5000 books, and over 2000 magazines and journals.
The Library is used mainly by students, academics, writers and authors, expatriate Sri Lankans and in short, by anyone who needs any information on Sri Lanka. A number of quasi government departments, non-governmental organisations and associations also use this valuable collection of material on Sri Lanka.
The books in the Library are classified into many headings, some of which are: History (Portuguese Period, Dutch Period, British Period), Geography, Politics, Religion, Tourism, Culture, Sports, Language/Literature/Writing, Agriculture, Economics, Art/ Architecture, Dictionaries, Bibliographies, Biographies, Education, Cookery, Year Books, Anthropology, Flora/Fauna, Ethnic Issues etc.
Daehaena congratulates Victor for the achievement and wishes him well in his continuing meritorious service to the community.
