Author : Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 1440855773
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Book Synopsis Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community by : Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Download or read book Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community written by Catherine Sheldrick Ross and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.