Academic Libraries and Extracurricular Reading Promotion

Adopting E-Readers with a Purpose: Surveying Users to Develop a Recreational Reading Kindle Lending Program

“…Librarians continue to promote recreational reading on their college and university campuses despite shrinking budgets, decreasing space availability, and increasing demands on staff time because there is still value in this service (Elliott 2007). People on college campuses continue to read for pleasure.…”

“…Despite this shift in focus, today's academic librarians continue to find ways to meet the recreational reading needs of their campus community (Elliott 2007, 35). Elliott's (2007) survey shows that 70 percent of academic librarians surveyed worked in libraries that maintained a recreational reading area for students, faculty, and staff. These librarians are creating book displays and reading lists to promote recreational reading materials, hosting book clubs and reading programs, and using social media to highlight interesting titles in their recreational reading collections (Elliott 2007, 37).…”

“…Yet activities encouraging recreational reading among students persist at college libraries across the United States (Elliott 2007). The adoption of e-readers by academic libraries has been a boost to recreational reading promotion efforts, giving students the opportunity to access greater numbers of popular fiction and nonfiction books while saving libraries money and space (Goodwin et al 2012).…”

Promoción de la lectura recreativa y misión de las bibliotecas académicas

“…Ahora bien, en la bibliografía se encuentran quienes evidencian la falta de preparación del personal en materia de promoción de lectura (Elliott, 2007;Sánchez-García y Yubero, 2015). Gladwin y Goulding (2012) argumentan que se debe entrenar al personal en promoción lectora y que debe ser una función explícita en sus perfiles.…”

“…En la bibliografía se encuentran artículos en donde se considera que las colecciones de ocio y las actividades de promoción de lectura recreativa atraen más personas al espacio físico de la biblioteca universitaria (Brookbank et al, 2018;Watson, 2013), y que dan visibilidad a la misma por lo que tienen un papel de relaciones públicas y de promoción de los servicios y las colecciones (Elliott, 2007;Dewan, 2010).…”