Patron Preferences: Recreational Reading in an Academic Library

Pleasure Reading and the Role of Libraries: A Review of the Literature

“…He believed that librarians can act as a catalyst in building a practice environment of reading and can be an advocate for library resources. Mueller et al, (2017) believed that the data collected from participants' survey offers a satisfactory culture of reading practice among the university community. The researchers believed the data collected from survey participants provide a better grasp of the reading culture of the University community.…”

Reading Habits and Attitudes Among University Students: A Review

“…Researchers have emphasized the role of leisure reading in an individual's life (Attiyat, 2019;Mak & Fancourt, 2020;Mumper & Gerrig, 2017;Whitten et al, 2019;Wilhelm & Smith, 2016). Leisure reading is also referred to as 'pleasure reading' (Sullivan & Brown, 2015;Whitten et al, 2019), 'recreational reading' (Mueller, Hanson, Martinez, & Meyer, 2017;N Khreisat & Mugableh, 2020;Putro & Lee, 2017), and 'voluntary reading' (Sholeh, Setyosari, & Cahyono, 2019;van Bergen et al, 2018). Leisure reading reflects the person's choice of reading materials, time and place (Clark & Rumbold, 2006).…”

Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf

“…Recent surveys of colleges and universities showed almost half of respondents expect their university or college library to provide recreational reading materials (Mueller, Hanson, Martinez & Meyer, 2017;Diers and Simpson, 2011) It's worth noting that while librarians note the distinction between school, public, and academic libraries, to the non-acquainted, a library is a library. A student, therefore, would likely expect academic libraries to provide materials that are also found in public and school libraries, most notably, popular fiction and/or YA (young adult) titles.…”