Hello, Some great library markerting cum reading habit cultivation skills have been suggested by my colleagues. Would like to add just one more : 1. You can create a subject list of users who might want to read journals / periodicals/ magazines of certain subjects. As you receive these journals circulate them to the respective faculty members (please consider this ONLY if you consider the students) with the member first in the list receiving it for a day then it being passed on manually to the second faculty and so on. You can personalize this further by sending a complimentary library note with any request for photocopy they might want or an ILL for cited references from the articles. If there is a special issue of a journal, add a list stating library holdings of when the same journal carried special issues on same/similar topics (if you have entered those in your database). There are many possibilities, we just need to be innovative. :-) Thanks and regards, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Pandurang Shendage wrote: Dear David, Mr. Das has suggested very relevant techniques for promoting reading habits of library users. I want add some. 1. We should present information sources by organizing exhibitions, Programs in the library. 2. We can arrange some quiz/contest regarding search of information and put some sort of gifts as convenient. 3. We can identify best users form faculty side and from student side and put some awards for motivation purpose. Best User Award 4. If possible arrange a program of free distribution of some general periodicals for attracting users to library. Periodical back issues, which we are not binding. 5. Arrange all magazines as per user convenience. If possible keep all magazines near the entrance of library. 6.We should communicate with users, try to understand their needs. We should not wait for them. Take the initiative. Get the right article, find the right user and give it on right time. Generally we are trying a lot. Success is depend on how users are taking it only thing is we should think positively and maintain our interest towards providing better services. Thanks, Pandurang Shendage On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 library_vcil wrote :

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.

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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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