As a typically busy adult who never has enough time, I found nonfiction picture books offered just the right amount of information I needed and had the time to absorb.
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When Oprah launched her “Oprah’s Book Club” in 1996, it was the first of its kind. Soon, “The Oprah Effect” became a well-known phenomenon within the literary world. But are the titles in contemporary celebrity book clubs seeing the same level of discoverability?
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After observing so many adults not checking out books and stating that they do not read, I chose to do some research, not simply to find out why adults aren’t reading, but to find out why they should be reading.
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The truth was that I was not teaching at all, and my students were only repeating what they were told. There was no real learning going on, and I felt like a fraud.
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These smaller libraries are reacting to the reading habits of their communities to produce year-over-year digital circulation growth of as much as 40-60 percent annually.
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Without digitizing special collections, we’re limiting their availability to the collective scrutiny of creative minds that are continuing to solve important problems.
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Though there’s still a long way to go to achieve true equality in publishing, 2018 saw increases in both digital readership and sales of content created by authors that come from a diverse background.
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A first-time novelist, Christina Dalcher is also a writer of flash fiction (short, short stories) and previously taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in linguistics, phonetics and phonology as well as writing and rhetoric.
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Total checkouts from K-12 digital collections have spiked by 43% since last year.
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A professor at the University of Liverpool who specializes in Victorian literature, Dr. Josie Billington also serves as the deputy director of the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society.
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