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

by Catherine Ross (Author), Catherine Ross (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $47.21

  The authors assert that the library plays a vital role in the life of a reader from early childhood to adulthood, and provides a cogent case for making reading a priority in the library. It also offers powerful evidence supporting the importance of libraries' fiction and other pleasure-reading collections, and readers' advisory services.