Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community
Mar 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools.
Reading is more important than it has ever beenrecent research on reading, such as PEW reports and Scholastic's "Kids and Family Reading Report," proves that fact. This new edition of Reading Matters provides powerful evidence that can be used to justify the establishment, maintenance, and growth of pleasure reading collections, both fiction and nonfiction, and of readers' advisory services. The authors assert that reading should be woven into the majority of library activities: reference, collection building, provision of leisure materials, readers' advisory services, storytelling and story time programs, adult literacy programs, and more.
This edition also addresses emergent areas of interest, such as e-reading, e-writing, and e-publishing; multiple literacies; visual texts; the ascendancy of young adult fiction; and fan fiction. A new chapter addresses special communities of YA readers. The book will help library administrators and personnel convey the importance of reading to grant-funding agencies, stakeholders, and the public at large. LIS faculty who wish to establish and maintain courses in readers' advisory will find it of particular interest.
Reading is more important than it has ever beenrecent research on reading, such as PEW reports and Scholastic's "Kids and Family Reading Report," proves that fact. This new edition of Reading Matters provides powerful evidence that can be used to justify the establishment, maintenance, and growth of pleasure reading collections, both fiction and nonfiction, and of readers' advisory services. The authors assert that reading should be woven into the majority of library activities: reference, collection building, provision of leisure materials, readers' advisory services, storytelling and story time programs, adult literacy programs, and more.
This edition also addresses emergent areas of interest, such as e-reading, e-writing, and e-publishing; multiple literacies; visual texts; the ascendancy of young adult fiction; and fan fiction. A new chapter addresses special communities of YA readers. The book will help library administrators and personnel convey the importance of reading to grant-funding agencies, stakeholders, and the public at large. LIS faculty who wish to establish and maintain courses in readers' advisory will find it of particular interest.
Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools.
Reading is more important than it has ever beenrecent research on reading, such as PEW reports and Scholastic's "Kids and Famil...
About the author
Catherine Sheldrick Ross, is dean and professor emerita of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.
Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie is professor at the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, a former children's librarian, and coauthor of Libraries Unlimited's Reading Matters.
Paulette M. Rothbauer is associate professor at the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, and coauthor of Libraries Unlimited's Reading Matters.
Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie is professor at the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, a former children's librarian, and coauthor of Libraries Unlimited's Reading Matters.
Paulette M. Rothbauer is associate professor at the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, and coauthor of Libraries Unlimited's Reading Matters.
Catherine Sheldrick Ross, is dean and professor emerita of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.
Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie is professor at the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, a former children's librarian, and coautho...
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