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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From: "Sukhdev Singh"
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Re: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits
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But aren't we trying to reinvent the
Wheel?
Let us go back to our science.
Read and Understand the Second
Law:
Better Buy a Copy and keep it on your table. I don't have to tell
you
the title. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/
Also
remember the Second Law comes Before Third Law.
The problem lies somewhere
else. Poor students!! Always at receiving end!!.
One question? Who told
them to read SMSes?
Second Question? Who told them to Google?
Answer = IF
SOMETHING IS USEFUL, IT WILL BE USED!!
So if the Library collection is
useful, it will be used. Put your
useful books in Seven Locks, people will
still ask for it. Don't you
observe it daily in your library?
Sorry, the
problem lies somewhere else.
Do you still want to know the
problem?
--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.