Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community – Ebook PDF Version

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1440855765
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440855764
• Author: Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, Paulette M. Rothbauer

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.

Table contents:

Chapter 1—The Company of Readers
1.1 Henny Penny and the Case for Reading
1.2 Myths about Reading
1.3 Histories of Reading
1.4 Reading in the Digital Age
1.5 Introduction to Reading Research
1.6 Reflecting on Reading
Chapter 2—Becoming a Reader: Childhood Years
2.1 What We Know about Children and Reading
2.2 Becoming a Reader
2.3 Readicide and Its Antidotes: Maintaining Childhood Reading
2.4 Multimodal Reading
2.5 Children, Libraries, and Reading
Chapter 3—Young Adults and Reading
3.1 Are Young Adults Reading or Not?
3.2 Young Adults and Fiction Reading
3.3 Reading and Identity
3.4 Digital Reading
3.5 Reading Comics by Lucía Cedeira Serantes
3.6 Young Adults Reading and Reaching Out
3.7 To Read More on Special Communities of YA Readers
Chapter 4—Adult Readers
4.1 The Who, What, Where, and When of Reading
4.2 Why (Not) Read?
4.3 The Reading Experience
4.4 Respecting Readers
4.5 Attracting Attention
4.6 Advising Readers
4.7 Shared Reading
4.8 Reading and Therapeutic Practices