Hi ; To best showcase your Jpurnals and to promote reading habits in users one must always go out to them and not expect them to come to you. first suggestion would be to find out what chapters of books or course is taught and display those books ot make detailed chapter wise bibliographies and put it up on the Library Notice boards.. Second go out to the teachers and students and interact with them ask if they have got all the material they want to study. Have them see the recent magazines and books. Slowly and steadily introduce them to what you have in Library Start a Book Awareness Club where the top ten books recieved in that week/ month are talked about or written. Ensure magazine articles are displayed for all to see. If they do not come to the Library Put it in a place they can see. For BE courses your interaction with the teachers and showing them what is availbale will improve the reading habits of students ie. awareness of what is availble in their Libraries. As they depend on teachers references a lot. Thirdly we all have to make the maximum effort to break this barrier in the initial stages only later on word of mounth from batch to batch will automatically advertise your collection. Last but not the least we have to accept that they have made their own arrangements either from Friends and Book-stores and have organised their reading materials themselves. In which case getting a vendor to sell at your campus at the beginning of the year with more discounts as books will be purchased in Bulk will endear you to them and they will approach you in future if they want any urther information..Try always to be among them and not away where their needs are concerned. best wishes and welcome to the real word of Library management Chitra Rao Library and Information officer NITIE Mumbai -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.