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Readers, reading, and librarians / Bill Katz, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2021Copyright date: ©2001Description: 219 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138984592
  • 1138984590
Uniform titles:
  • Acquisitions librarian.
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: Remembrance of Things Past-and Future / Bill Katz -- Reading, Books, and Librarians -- Making Choices: What Readers Say About Choosing Books to Read for Pleasure / Catherine Sheldrick Ross -- The Book's Remarkable Longevity in the Face of New Communications Technologies-Past, Present and Future / Kenneth Shearer -- Some Speculation on the Future of the Book / Lee Shiflett -- The Meaning of Reading: Fiction and Public Libraries / Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Catherine Jasper -- Books Are for Use? Keeping the Faith in Reading / Jim Dwyer -- A Librarian's Thoughts on Reading / Sherri Kendrick -- Readers' Advisory -- From Reading Words to Reading the World: Readers' Advisory for Adult Literacy Students / Marguerite Crowley Weibel -- Reading the Future of the Public Library / Joyce G. Saricks -- Reaching Library Patrons with Special Services and Materials / Kathleen O. Mayo -- Flow: The Benefits of Pleasure Reading and Tapping Readers' Interests / Cathleen A. Towey -- Children and Reading -- Cues from Conversations: An Overview of Research in Children's Response to Literature / Pauletta Brown Bracy -- "The Heart's Field": Landscapes of Children's Literature / Anne Lundin -- Librarians in Fiction -- From Cosmo and Alec to the Tallest Man in the World: Some Fictional Librarians and Their Patrons / Grant Burns -- Best Books and the Canon -- Best Books and Readers / Bill Katz -- A Prevalence of Lists / Marjorie Lewis.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 028 R286 Available 33111010731749
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

"Readers, reading, and librarians has been co-published simultaneously as The acquisitions librarian, number 25, 2001."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Remembrance of Things Past-and Future / Bill Katz -- Reading, Books, and Librarians -- Making Choices: What Readers Say About Choosing Books to Read for Pleasure / Catherine Sheldrick Ross -- The Book's Remarkable Longevity in the Face of New Communications Technologies-Past, Present and Future / Kenneth Shearer -- Some Speculation on the Future of the Book / Lee Shiflett -- The Meaning of Reading: Fiction and Public Libraries / Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Catherine Jasper -- Books Are for Use? Keeping the Faith in Reading / Jim Dwyer -- A Librarian's Thoughts on Reading / Sherri Kendrick -- Readers' Advisory -- From Reading Words to Reading the World: Readers' Advisory for Adult Literacy Students / Marguerite Crowley Weibel -- Reading the Future of the Public Library / Joyce G. Saricks -- Reaching Library Patrons with Special Services and Materials / Kathleen O. Mayo -- Flow: The Benefits of Pleasure Reading and Tapping Readers' Interests / Cathleen A. Towey -- Children and Reading -- Cues from Conversations: An Overview of Research in Children's Response to Literature / Pauletta Brown Bracy -- "The Heart's Field": Landscapes of Children's Literature / Anne Lundin -- Librarians in Fiction -- From Cosmo and Alec to the Tallest Man in the World: Some Fictional Librarians and Their Patrons / Grant Burns -- Best Books and the Canon -- Best Books and Readers / Bill Katz -- A Prevalence of Lists / Marjorie Lewis.

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