Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community - Couverture souple

Ross, Catherine

 
9781591580669: Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community

Synopsis

A road map to the research on reading and libraries, and a cogent case for the library's vital role in the life of a readerÑfrom childhood through adulthood.|Drawing upon data published in a variety of scholarly journals, monographs in education, cultural

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À propos de l?auteur

Catherine Sheldrick Ross, professor, faculty of information and media studies, The University of Western Ontario, teaches a course in readers' advisory, and is involved in ongoing research on reading for pleasure.

Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, associate professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Western Ontario, is conducting a longitudinal study of the role of the public library in the lives of 30 children.

Paulette M. Rothbauer, assistant professor, University of Toronto, has done extensive research on adolescent readers and the role of pleasure-reading in the discovery of identity. She is the winner of the Eugene Garfield Dissertation Competition.

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