Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community
Language: English
Published by Libraries Unlimited, 2018
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- Title
- Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community
- Author
- Ross, Catherine Sheldrick, McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.), Rothbauer, Paulette M.
- Publisher
- Libraries Unlimited
- Publication year
- 2018
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- Good
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 1440855765
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- 9781440855764
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 been―recent 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.
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About the Author
Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie is professor emerita in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where she earned her PhD. She is an award-winning author who has co-edited and co-authored several books, including Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries and Community (Libraries Unlimited, 2018), and Reading Matters (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). She has published in many journals, including the Canadian Journal of Information & Library Science, Children and Libraries, and JASIST.
Paulette M. Rothbauer is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where she earned her PhD. She is co-author of Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries and Community (Libraries Unlimited, 2018), Reading Matters (Libraries Unlimited, 2006), and co-editor of Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics (2016). She has published in journals including The Journal of Documentation, Library & Information Science Research and The Library Quarterly.
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