01421 a2200265 4500 1138984590 20250317100413.0 250312042021GB eng 9781138984592 Taylor & Francis GBP 35.99 BB 01 eng GL thema GL bic LAN025000 bisac LIT007000 bisac LIT017000 bisac 028.9 bisac Linda S Katz Readers, Reading, and Librarians 1 Oxford Routledge 20210930 230 p 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! 2533 2533