The Library Readers Association year for 2021 began in January 2021.As the Library Readers Association we are the oldest student association at Royal College. It was set up in 1846 and was turned into a student body in 1946. The Library Readers Association is popularly referred to as the LRA.

It has two main objectives. One is to uplift the Royal College Library. The other is to encourage and facilitate a network of school libraries throughout the country. The LRA in the past few years had to face many obstacles. But thanks to the perseverance of its board members, it was able to strike out against all odds and become a Graded Club. In short, it seeks to enliven our interest in reading and writing. Its main yearly projects include reading sessions by distinguished local writers and the EDEX program at the Colombo International Book Fair.

Due to the covid-19 pandemic we plan to carry out our projects online. We planed online lecture as the first project for the club year 2021.We are hoping to do an online lecture to improve reading and writing skills among young Royalists. We are doing thislecture to members of Library Readers Association. This lecture will be very useful to children who are interested in writing short stories. At the same time we continue poster campaign through out the year. At this Project we will exhibit new posters including interesting facts about libraries all over the world and facts about famous Books and Authors. This poster campaign is publicized by sharing the posters through the social media platforms. Due to the pandemic situation we hope to build up a telegram bot covering full of books, articles and some interesting subjects that children willing to study.

Weekly Quiz program, Summary Competition and Book hash tagging are the other projects we were planned to do in this club year. At end of the year we are hoping to launch a magazine according to our vision and mission. Due to the pandemic situation we were still not able to do our main project rural area library development and book donation. At the end of the year we hope To make the Royal College Library the best in the country by updating and modernizing its function and encourage and facilitate the students to master the reading and writing skills.