Dear Friends, I did a telephone directory search using BSNL's website: http://www.ap.bsnl.com/enquiry/search.asp When I tried the search string 'library' in "name - anywhere" I got 14 results. Out of this only 8 were real libraries. Then I did a search for the same string (library) in "address - anywhere", and I got 220 results. Twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad do have a few hundred libraries - big and small, public and private, academic & special -- all put together. Only very few of them (just 8) have phone numbers listed against their own identification as a library. The larger number of results in the second search shows that people use library to identify their addresses / location by saying near 'so and so library'. While librarians are failing to use telephone directory as a means to publicity or as a tool for communication, unintended publicity comes from the public -- of course non-library users! At least that way they find libraries useful! Any comments? Vyasamoorthy, P ================== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631