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future of the book and enticing readers - School Library Journal
Jan 2 2010, 4:55 PM EST
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/ca6712772.html
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1. RE: future of the book and enticing readers - School Library Journal
Jan 2 2010, 6:18 PM EST
Oh, Angela! I loved this article, especially this bit of advice for librarians, (just ignore the stuff about Americans!):++++++++++++++++++ <snip>if, in the future, most books are sold either online or in big box stores like Costco and Wal-Mart, you will become even more important to American literature. How you choose to build your collection, whom you buy from, and how you discover the works you want to share with your patrons will shape what Americans—whether or not they ever visit libraries—will read and how they will read it. So don’t screw this up, please. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Coincidentally, I just read Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns in the last week or so, and have put the Katherines on my TBR list. And then the author turns out to be even more interesting! Do you find this valuable? |
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2. RE: future of the book and enticing readers - School Library Journal
Jan 3 2010, 5:30 PM EST
Yes, I am still absorbing some of it; I hope this is the right place to put this! Someone was interviewed on a school librarian's blog which I read recently and asked if she ever stopped working - she didn't and nor do we - just different forms of work. I haven't read new books so much - doing a catchup on Margaret Mahy, Elizabeth Pulford , things that might be useful for topics coming up, buying discards from the public library, checking all the review sites so I can be up and running in Feb, storing wish lists on Wheelers website, etc. Do you find this valuable? |
