Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:56:24 +0530
From: Rafiq
Dear All,
We are debating a very subjective issue. People not coming to Library and
not borrowing books in no way indicate decline in reading habits. Reading
today has shifted from print to electronic. Downloading e-books or taking
print out of searched pages from the Internet is as good as physically
borrowing books from the Library. In the present milieu (though it has
always been so), the world is a university where learning is online. And no
learning is possible without reading; I repeat reading - be it physical or
online. The crux of the issue, nevertheless, is that "Reading is Living",
and a person who does not read dies before time, he may be physically alive,
though. So let's strive to promote "reading habit" per se rather than
wasting efforts in finding results of surveys indicating that the reading
habit is declining.
Regards,
Rafiq Ansari
Senior Manager - Library
Television Division
The Times of India Group
Mumbai
Tel - (022) 24810633
rafiq.ansari@gmail.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:49 AM
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Declining reading habits
Dear All,
Declining reading habits are one of the major concerns of nearly all
libraries today.
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