Reading still matters : what the research reveals about reading, libraries, and community /
Reading Matters provides 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: refe...
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Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
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Publisher Address: | Santa Barbara, California : |
Publication Dates: | [2018] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
Reading Matters provides 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 work also addresses emergent areas of interest, such as e-reading, e-writing, and e-publishing; multiple literacies; visual texts; the as |
Carrier Form: | xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: |
9781440855764 1440855765 |
Index Number: | Z1003 |
CLC: | G252.17 |
Call Number: | G252.17/R823 |
Contents: |
The company of readers / Becoming a reader : childhood years / Young adults and reading / Adult readers / Coda: reading becomes you. |