loan fayaz wrote: Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:32:42 +0100 (BST)
From: loan fayaz
Subject: Promoting Reading Habits
To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Dear Colleage,
As all of us know information is power and this power is absorbed in the body not by eating but by reading. So a person must have reading habits in this information age. Now the question is how to develop them? A single person or organisation cannot develop reading habits in modern multimedia society where new media is distracting the reader from reading materials. Parents , teachers and librarians have to play a great role in creating a reading society. As a librarian you can attract users towards reading by displaying book jackets of new books/the new issues of periodicals, providing SDI services, circulating contents of new issues, motivating the authorities for celeberating World Book Day, Library Week, Librarian's Day, and organising the Book exhibitions. Book talk, Quiz competitions and the like.
It is matter of regret that in academic institutions of India emphasis is given on passing the examinations, not on promoting the lifelong reading habits. That is why our biggest population struggles in every field for survival and leading in the none as compared to other developing countries. We must know that "the nations who reads is a nation who leads".
Fayaz Lone
Documentation Officer
CCAS, University of Kashmir.
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