caa a22 4500 378936492 CHVBK 20180305123642.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200406 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/LIBR.2004.104 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/LIBR.2004.104 Klopfer Lisa Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA Commercial Libraries in an Indian City: an Ethnographic Sketch [Elektronische Daten] [Lisa Klopfer] In this report of research currently underway on libraries in the city of Pune, Maharashtra (India), the focus is on commercial, street-corner libraries. Using an ethnographic approach, this research explores the way these libraries function, and the values placed on reading by Pune's middle class library users. Commercial libraries seem to have occupied a niche not filled by the public libraries in Pune, that of providing current popular fiction and glossy magazines in convenient locations. The libraries have a variety of origins and motivations, but are typically run with only the most rudimentary of cataloging and shelving systems, and no reference functions at all. Patrons describe their reading activity as leisure, and name television viewing as the main alternative or competing activity. © 2004 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany Libri Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 54/2(2004-06), 104-112 0024-2667 54:2<104 2004 54 LIBR https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2004.104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2004.104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Klopfer Lisa Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Libri Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 54/2(2004-06), 104-112 0024-2667 54:2<104 2004 54 LIBR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter