Dear David, I can suggest the followings for increasing the reading habit : 1. You can send the Current Title Service to all the Engg. student if you the facilities to do so. 2. You can also make some sort of Gist / Synopsis service for interesting articles. 3. You can also make phone/sms type of service to the respect faculty for the respective journals 4. You can have a systematic study about the users' need and accordingly you can suggest them some readings from the journals. 5. I don't know, if you have some sort of recreational / political Magazines in your collection. If it not there, you may add some recreational Magazine which will attract the user and ultimately when they will find some good articles in the Engg. journals, they may have the chance to read those. It is just like some kind of browsing facilities in a different way. 6. You can study the students behavioural interest and what type of project they are going to do, you can find out that type of articles and can inform to the respective students. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das. M. Phil, ADIS/DRTC, B. Sc. (Chem.) Sr. Librarian / TPM & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 Mobile : 09420836138 E-mail : librarymahad@pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================ ----- Original Message ----- From: "binu david" <binudavid@indiainfo.com> To: <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits
Dear Friends
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.
Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people.
Thanking you
Sincerely
Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat
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