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List of contents
- Introduction: Remembrance of Things Past--and Future
- Reading, Books, and Librarians
- Making Choices: What Readers Say About Choosing Books to Read for Pleasure
- The Book's Remarkable Longevity in the Face of New Communications Technologies--Past, Present, and Future
- Some Speculation on the Future of the Book
- The Meaning of Reading: Fiction and Public Libraries
- Books Are for Use? Keeping the Faith in Reading
- A Librarian's Thoughts on Reading
- Readers' Advisory
- From Reading Words to Reading the World: Readers' Advisory for Adult Literacy Students
- Reading the Future of the Public Library
- Reaching Library Patrons with Special Services and Materials
- Flow: The Benefits of Pleasure Reading and Tapping Readers' Interests
- Children and Reading
- Clues from Conversations: An Overview of Research in Children's Response to Literature
- “The Heart's Field”: Landscapes of Children's Literature
- Librarians in Fiction
- From Cosmo and Alec to the Tallest Man in the World: Some Fictional Librarians and Their Patrons
- Best Books and the Canon
- Best Books and Readers
- A Prevalence of Lists
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Summary
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!
