Sorry am back once again...
 
The problem indeed lies somewhere else. Reading habits do not evolve over-night, but it is a long process having its roots in human beings as kids. Curiosity will no doubt drive anyone to read anything of his/her interest no matter where it is. But if we are talking of 'reading' for the sake of inner development and a more mature level of understanding and a mature society in-turn, then it is the whole wide spectrum of 'reading habit' that comes into picture. There are n-book clubs of different trusts/ organizations however there is a deficiency of a library, librarian, a school library, a public library (pls lets leave the BCL and USIS out of our 'Indian' list), or a library association in India involved directly or indirectly  in such  a process. (This bring to mind a question I have been pondering, is there any association at all between the National Book Trust of India and our libraries, lets say our National Library ?...pls can someone clarify ? )
 
There are some public libraries in the US, that hand out gift baskets containing books to 'expectant mothers' to read them out to their unborn ! ..sounds familiar to our culture too...oh yes thats also Abhimanyu from Mahabharat !!! So it is at THIS BASIC level that we have YET TO BEGIN working towards. Else we are all aware of the parallel education system in our country, of the rote system of learning in schools, of ...  are these the reason why school kids so shy away from their library periods ? Is there any study between such dynamic relations /interactions related also to school libraries / national association in this ? If yes, then has that been out forward to the varied boards on education set up time and again to bring reforms to the school syllabus and learning methodology. We see examples here being pointed from US, are people in such committees aware of the role a library has in developing lets say 'reading habit' here ? Are there any librarians or representatives of library associations ? What about the role of libraries in developing reading habits for the special kids ?
 
Regards,
 
Smita--
Smita Chandra
Librarian
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
New Mumbai

Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev@gmail.com> wrote:
But aren't we trying to reinvent the Wheel?

Let us go back to our science.

Read and Understand the Second Law:

Better Buy a Copy and keep it on your table. I don't have to tell you
the title. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/

Also remember the Second Law comes Before Third Law.

The problem lies somewhere else. Poor students!! Always at receiving end!!.

One question? Who told them to read SMSes?
Second Question? Who told them to Google?

Answer = IF SOMETHING IS USEFUL, IT WILL BE USED!!

So if the Library collection is useful, it will be used. Put your
useful books in Seven Locks, people will still ask for it. Don't you
observe it daily in your library?

Sorry, the problem lies somewhere else.
Do you still want to know the problem?


--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Parinita Samant wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> This could be a very interesting point for discussion, as promoting
> reading habits will always be an important topic for all librarians.
>
> Could we professionals work together on this forum and try to list out
> all possibilities for increased readership in libraries?
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> Dear Friends
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> I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only
> BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print
> periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To
> promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty
> we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc.
> But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are
> spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable
> suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our
> periodicals in optimum.
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> Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people.
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> Thanking you
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> Binu David
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> Pothandi
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