Dear All,
As Mr Singh rightly pointed out, the problem lies certainly somewhere else.
If good books are there in libraries, users will certainly visit and use
the library even without much promotion.
The best seller book The Google Story - a must read for librarians- will
tell you that a useful product - like Google - needed no advertisement
at all. This lesson is applicable to libraries too.Good library collection
will get readers, if other enabling factors are there at work. So the need
is to create an enabling factor.
Developing a useful collection is not an easy task. It requires a lot of
work, in finding out, choosing the right one, assigning priority in purchase
and all that.
It lead us again to the discussion on librarians role in building book
collection, which we had discussed a bit as per Dr Saheb's query.Unless we
become good designers of libraries in many aspects including book
collection, we cannot make it useful.
This topic requires further discussion, it seems.
Regards,
K Rajasekharan
Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India
Email rajankila@gmail.com
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Original Message:
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:05:17 +0530
From: "Sukhdev Singh"