Dear Friends I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum. Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people. Thanking you Sincerely Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat -- ______________________________________________ IndiaInfo Mail - the free e-mail service with a difference! www.indiainfo.com Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Dear All, This could be a very interesting point for discussion, as promoting reading habits will always be an important topic for all librarians. Could we professionals work together on this forum and try to list out all possibilities for increased readership in libraries? Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant Hexaware Technologies Ltd Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710 67919595 - Xt- 9707 "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" -Oscar Wilde -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of binu david Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:13 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits Dear Friends I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum. Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people. Thanking you Sincerely Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat -- ______________________________________________ IndiaInfo Mail - the free e-mail service with a difference! www.indiainfo.com Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin@hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin@hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Parinita Samant <parinitas@hexaware.com> wrote:
Dear All,
This could be a very interesting point for discussion, as promoting reading habits will always be an important topic for all librarians.
Could we professionals work together on this forum and try to list out all possibilities for increased readership in libraries?
Thanks & Regards
Parinita Samant Hexaware Technologies Ltd Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710
67919595 - Xt- 9707 "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" -Oscar Wilde
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Dear Friends
I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum.
Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people.
Thanking you
Sincerely
Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat
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Sorry am back once again... The problem indeed lies somewhere else. Reading habits do not evolve over-night, but it is a long process having its roots in human beings as kids. Curiosity will no doubt drive anyone to read anything of his/her interest no matter where it is. But if we are talking of 'reading' for the sake of inner development and a more mature level of understanding and a mature society in-turn, then it is the whole wide spectrum of 'reading habit' that comes into picture. There are n-book clubs of different trusts/ organizations however there is a deficiency of a library, librarian, a school library, a public library (pls lets leave the BCL and USIS out of our 'Indian' list), or a library association in India involved directly or indirectly in such a process. (This bring to mind a question I have been pondering, is there any association at all between the National Book Trust of India and our libraries, lets say our National Library ?...pls can someone clarify ? ) There are some public libraries in the US, that hand out gift baskets containing books to 'expectant mothers' to read them out to their unborn ! ..sounds familiar to our culture too...oh yes thats also Abhimanyu from Mahabharat !!! So it is at THIS BASIC level that we have YET TO BEGIN working towards. Else we are all aware of the parallel education system in our country, of the rote system of learning in schools, of ... are these the reason why school kids so shy away from their library periods ? Is there any study between such dynamic relations /interactions related also to school libraries / national association in this ? If yes, then has that been out forward to the varied boards on education set up time and again to bring reforms to the school syllabus and learning methodology. We see examples here being pointed from US, are people in such committees aware of the role a library has in developing lets say 'reading habit' here ? Are there any librarians or representatives of library associations ? What about the role of libraries in developing reading habits for the special kids ? Regards, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev@gmail.com> wrote: 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. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Parinita Samant wrote:
Dear All,
This could be a very interesting point for discussion, as promoting reading habits will always be an important topic for all librarians.
Could we professionals work together on this forum and try to list out all possibilities for increased readership in libraries?
Thanks & Regards
Parinita Samant Hexaware Technologies Ltd Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710
67919595 - Xt- 9707 "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" -Oscar Wilde
-----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of binu david Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:13 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits
Dear Friends
I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum.
Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people.
Thanking you
Sincerely
Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat
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Are we just teachers? Or our responsibility goes beyond that? I thought, it just the teachers who "force" their "pupils" to learn whatever is prescribed in their syllabus. A teacher transfers a domain of knowledge to its pupils. S/he deals with one generation (25 years equals to a generation). Fine, I have no objection to this. It is his/her duty. The roles are well defined; the person standing in the class knows the best. Now there is something called social "value system". Conflicts between generations start from here. Call it "Generation Gap" if you like. Here the older generation always feel that their value system is better and more right than that of younger generation. The young feels just the opposite. I am with the younger generation. I feel the younger generation is always right because they know better. After all they are born after 25 years. During these 25 years, the sum total of mankind knowledge gets added up (Quiz - How many times?). And Technology? How much does it change in 25 years? While a teacher (not a researcher) merely transfers the existing known domain knowledge to its pupil, a librarian has more challenging task - s/he builds the knowledge base. S/he acquires the best knowledge produced and recorded; organizes; makes it findable and usable. Librarian does not work for a Generation. Librarian does not work for Money. Librarian does not subscribe to any particular Ideology. Librarian does not work for a particular Society or Community. Librarian WORKS FOR MANKIND. Libraries collectively form the MEMORY of MANKIND. Now coming to philosophy of Library Science. I wonder whether we all have grown beyond Ranganathan. More of us are talking in terms of THIRD LAW (Every Book Its Reader - the promotional aspect) while ignoring the SECOND LAW (Every Reader his/her Book - the collection development aspect). As already hinted in my previous mail, priority should be according to the order of the Laws. For me the FIRST LAW (Books are for use) comes first, so I talk of Open Access. Collection development comes second and promotion comes third. I am very happy that few of us actually pinpointed the root cause. It is the strict adhere to "numerical" and "magic numbers" prescribed by accrediting bodies. Recently, I was invited at CMC Vellore < http://www.cochrane-sacn.org/symposium2008/workshops.html > to chair a session. There I got an opportunity to look to one poster. It was co-authored by Dr. R. R. Pathak, Depratment of Pharmacology, C U Shah Medical College, Surendranagar GUJARAT - 363001 and Sheikh, Rizwan, the Senior Librarian there. I talked at length to Dr. Pathak during his poster presentation. His views are important to me. He is a PG Student of Pharmacology and a Library User. I requested a copy of the poster, which he sent me through email later (I can forward the same to whoever desires, or better if Rizwan is here and listening, I request him to make his presentation in lis-forum) What does this poster say? It bursts the MCI's Library Norms and Magic Numbers. He shows how a private college can fill up "magic numbers" with books and journals that students would never need. He goes ahead with high pitch, which I don't like to circulate over here. So you cannot have Second Law violated and then expect Librarian to operate the Third Law. So Build Your Collection to the Needs of your User. Don't impose your own Value - System on the User. User Knows the Best. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Smita Chandra <smitac_in@yahoo.com> wrote:
Sorry am back once again...
The problem indeed lies somewhere else. Reading habits do not evolve over-night, but it is a long process having its roots in human beings as kids. Curiosity will no doubt drive anyone to read anything of his/her interest no matter where it is. But if we are talking of 'reading' for the sake of inner development and a more mature level of understanding and a mature society in-turn, then it is the whole wide spectrum of 'reading habit' that comes into picture. There are n-book clubs of different trusts/ organizations however there is a deficiency of a library, librarian, a school library, a public library (pls lets leave the BCL and USIS out of our 'Indian' list), or a library association in India involved directly or indirectly in such a process. (This bring to mind a question I have been pondering, is there any association at all between the National Book Trust of India and our libraries, lets say our National Library ?...pls can someone clarify ? )
There are some public libraries in the US, that hand out gift baskets containing books to 'expectant mothers' to read them out to their unborn ! ..sounds familiar to our culture too...oh yes thats also Abhimanyu from Mahabharat !!! So it is at THIS BASIC level that we have YET TO BEGIN working towards. Else we are all aware of the parallel education system in our country, of the rote system of learning in schools, of ... are these the reason why school kids so shy away from their library periods ? Is there any study between such dynamic relations /interactions related also to school libraries / national association in this ? If yes, then has that been out forward to the varied boards on education set up time and again to bring reforms to the school syllabus and learning methodology. We see examples here being pointed from US, are people in such committees aware of the role a library has in developing lets say 'reading habit' here ? Are there any librarians or representatives of library associations ? What about the role of libraries in developing reading habits for the special kids ?
Regards,
Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai
Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev@gmail.com> wrote: 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.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Parinita Samant wrote:
Dear All,
This could be a very interesting point for discussion, as promoting reading habits will always be an important topic for all librarians.
Could we professionals work together on this forum and try to list out all possibilities for increased readership in libraries?
Thanks & Regards
Parinita Samant Hexaware Technologies Ltd Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710
67919595 - Xt- 9707 "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" -Oscar Wilde
-----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of binu david Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:13 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits
Dear Friends
I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum.
Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people.
Thanking you
Sincerely
Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat
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Dear David, I can suggest the followings for increasing the reading habit : 1. You can send the Current Title Service to all the Engg. student if you the facilities to do so. 2. You can also make some sort of Gist / Synopsis service for interesting articles. 3. You can also make phone/sms type of service to the respect faculty for the respective journals 4. You can have a systematic study about the users' need and accordingly you can suggest them some readings from the journals. 5. I don't know, if you have some sort of recreational / political Magazines in your collection. If it not there, you may add some recreational Magazine which will attract the user and ultimately when they will find some good articles in the Engg. journals, they may have the chance to read those. It is just like some kind of browsing facilities in a different way. 6. You can study the students behavioural interest and what type of project they are going to do, you can find out that type of articles and can inform to the respective students. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das. M. Phil, ADIS/DRTC, B. Sc. (Chem.) Sr. Librarian / TPM & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 Mobile : 09420836138 E-mail : librarymahad@pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================ ----- Original Message ----- From: "binu david" <binudavid@indiainfo.com> To: <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits
Dear Friends
I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum.
Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people.
Thanking you
Sincerely
Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat
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Mr David, I m a Librarian in Management college, where MBA students are given projects, assignments, and presentations, whose topics are very well chosen keeping in mind the happenings around the world. For this students have to scan periodicals to search for their required material. Its true, students are using not only the latest issues but also the previous issues. This also helps in building their interest in periodicals. Also, for their preparation for exams they consult journals for the case studies.. Ruchika Sharma Librarian Punjab College of Technical Education Ludhiana On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:12 PM, binu david <binudavid@indiainfo.com> wrote:
Dear Friends
I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum.
Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people.
Thanking you
Sincerely
Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat
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