- 230 pages
- English
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Readers, Reading, and Librarians
About this book
This vital book reaffirms librarians'enthusiasm for books and readers in the midst of the evolution of libraries-from reading centers to information centers where librarians are now Web masters, information scientists, and media experts. Readers, Reading, and Librarians explores the future of the book as a medium. With nearly two hundred open-ended interviews with readers who read for pleasure, this book looks at how and why they choose or reject certain books.Readers, Reading, and Librarians examines:
- reasons for the current decline in pleasure reading
- the need for librarians to sponsor book groups
- the current focus on "electronic wonders"
- balancing the missions of acting as an advisory service for readers and maintaining your library's technological services
- and much more!
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Index
“A City of Invention,” 173
A Civil Action, 29
A Day in the Life of America, 99
A Feeling for Books, 54
A History of Reading, 54
A List of Unrequired Reading: One Good Book a Month for Four Years, 72–73
A Song in Stone: City Poems, 96
Abell, C.B., 101
Abrams, H.N., 99
Academic libraries, “popular” literature in, popularity of, 63–66
Adult literacy students, readers’ advisory for, 91–111
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance, 20
Age, as factor in committed readers, 7
A.L.A. Catalog: 8,000 Volumes for a Popular Library with Notes, 197
Alcott, L.M., 92
Alec Forbes of Howglen, 183
“Alf,” 48
“Alice Among the Elves,” 167
Alice in Wonderland, 167
All Quiet on the Western Front, 67
Allison, P.B., 66,67
Altick, R., 31
Always to Remember: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 107
Amazon.com, 32
American Association for School Librarians, 53
American Bet, 103
American Childhood, 175
American Demographics, 134
American Libraries, 73,117
American Library Association Annual Conference, 77
Amis, K., 184
Amos Fortune, Free Man, 185
Andersen, H.C., 163
Anderson, G., 39
Anderson, S., 184
Angela’s Ashes, 29,83,135
Angelou, M., 103
Anzul, M., 142
“Apostles of the Faith that Books Matter,” 55
Applebee, A.N., 142,147,154,155
Aristarchus, 192
Aristophanes, 192
Arnold, M., 194
Art books, 98–99
Ashabranner, B., 107
Associated Students Bookstore, 72
Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 53
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, 76
At the Crossroads, 101
Atkinson, E....
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Remembrance of Things Past-and Future
- Reading, Books, and Librarians
- Readers’ ADvisory
- Children and Reading
- Librarians in Fiction
- Best Books and the Canon
- Index