"Right information to the right recepients at the right time on right price" is the philosophy that drives the quest for Information Literacy all over the globe. Librarians at different levels of education and in a variety of library environment can play a very useful role towards the task of universal Information Literacy through diligence and professional committment. But the present age of "copy, cut and paste" is making it a very difficult task. In our own University, previously students used to depend heavily on downloaded materials from the net for their assignments which used to have repititative information haphazardly arranged. Now, they have been asked to derive materials mainly from the journals. This has rekindled in them the the zest for literature survey and brought back the smile on librarians face. We have already burnt our hands while practicing the CAS and SDI. The academics are a smug community. We thought that our best foot forward will also enliven them to come over to the library to benefit from its knowledge resources. But we only received phone calls for photocopies. The library management was already hardpressed because of insufficent D group staff. Now, who will photocopy and who will distribute the materails to each desk. After a few months this initiative died. Otherwise the hands of a librarian are mostly tied in an acdemic library og higher education to take independent decisions that involves the precious commodity, money. Private organizations may be better placed to tailor made their policies and arrange resources accordingly. Neverthess, best wishes for the professionals who are honestly holding to their committment towards promting Information Literacy. Regards. ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Kumaravel C Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:28 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] promoting reading habit - organising journal clubs This is response to the optimum use of journals subscribed. This is a problem not unique to any particular college alone. To satisify the norms of the councils like MCI, PCI, AICTE, DCI, INC and various other councils, the libraries are forced to subscribe to journals inspite of the shrinking budget. Apart from routing of journals to the particular college/depts., we organize 'Journal Club' where a student from every college/department has to present a paper from the latest journal issue on a particular day of a week. Again the initiative has to come from the concerned department head and a faculty will monitor the session. This method seems to have a double impact wherein the student and the faculty are forced to go through the latest journal articles. Kumaravel.C Sr.Librarian, MTIHS, Puducherry. Kumaravel.C JS RED<http://imadworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/adimage.cgi/2087310_2079 844/creative_2087453.jpg> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner <http://www.mailscanner.info/> , and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.