4. Who Cares?
Where do I start?
What are other libraries
doing?
Is it affordable?
What policies do we
implement?
What do we do with all our
print books?
What type of books do we
make available in this
format?
6. 25% of children
age 15-17say
they have read
a book on a
digital device.
2010 Kids and Family Reading Report
7. 57% of children
age 9-17 are
interested in
reading books on
a digital device
2010 Kids and Family Reading Report
8. Among children age
9-17, 33% would
read more if they
had greater access
to eBooks on an
eReader.
2010 Kids and Family Reading Report
9. Young adult eBook
novel sales are
well above print
novel sales for
Barnes and Noble
and Amazon.
Young adults are
perfectly poised
to read digitally.
(Springen, 20)
18. “ Use all kinds of media
like computers, nook,
kindle, leapfrog leap pads,
or any other electronic
media (10).”
“Have plenty of things to
read available all the time.
This means magazines,
chapter books, picture
books, newspapers, and even
online books (10).”
19.
20. “ Stay tuned. Like
a good series,
the YA
e-reading story is
full of suspense—
and isn’t over yet
(Are).”
21. Works Cited
“10 Easy Tips for Parents to Improve Kids Reading.” Golden Wisdom Nugget. 27
Feb. 2012. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.
“Are Teens Embracing E-Books?” Publishers Weekly 259.8 (2012): 20-23. Library
Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 22 Mar.
2012.
Bock, Jessica. “Schools are Turning Heads an Pages With Their Ebooks.” St. Louis
Today. stltoday.com, 1 Feb. 2012. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.
“History of Books.” Wikipedia. Wikipedia.com. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.
Lamb, Annette, and Larry Johnson. “Nurturing A New Breed of Reader.” Teacher
Librarian 39.1 (2011): 56-63. Library Literature & Information Science
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Editor's Notes
During the fall of this year a student came up to me and said, “When we were at a volleyball game in Stover I saw a poster that said, ‘Nook or Book? We Have Both.’” That student went on to ask me what I thought that meant. I turned that question around to her and asked her what she thought that meant and she said, “They have Nooks in their library?” The next time I was in Barnes and Noble I mentioned this to one of their employees (who was a retired teacher from our district) and she said they did in fact check out Nooks to students. I got on the Stover website, emailed their librarian, Brenda Steffens, and immediately and set up a visit. Thus, I am sharing my experience with you today about the introduction of Nooks into my library.
Throughout our history the medium upon which words are recorded has changed…it would be foolish of us to not consider that things will change going forward. We can not put up a barrier in our attitude towards electronic reading. It will happen with our with out us. The change we are experiencing in our library environment is both exciting and scary
Who owns aneReader personally? Who has eReaders or eBooks that can be checked out to eReaders through your library? What does this big trend in “e” everything mean? We hear all these words and we may own an eReader personally but as a librarian the decision to embrace eReaders for our patrons is a big question and will need to be addressed sometime in the future.
According to Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson’s article, Nurturing a New Breed of Reader, we are experiencing great changes in the way we are reading. The electronic reader markets are blowing up Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This raises a lot of questions for libraries. (56)
Why should we care about electronic readers?
We should care because 25% of children 15-17 have read on a digital device.
57% are interested
33% say they would read more if they had greater access!! As far as digtal reading is concerned, these are old numbers because according to Julie Bosman in her blog titled Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar , “For adults, tablet computers and e-readers were the gifts of choice, judging by a new report that indicates the number of adults in the United States who own tablets and e-readers nearly doubled from mid-December to early Janurary.” This report was from Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.
According to Karen Springen in her article, Raised to Download iTunes, Are Kids Going Online to Get Novels, Too?” Barnes and Noble sold 5 times as many eBooks geared toward young adults than print ones. And at Amazon young adult novel sales are increasing more rapidly. Her article goes on to explain how teenagers are constantly on their digital devices that eReading will be an extension of how they already live. (20)
Why should we care about electronic readers?
Why should we care about electronic readers?
According to Mallorie Colvin’s article, Why Read Digitally?, 66% of public libraries offer eBooks in one way or another and some libraries even circulate the devices.
Jessica Bock quoted librarian Mindy Siefert, “Reading is reading. As much as we love paper books, our kids are using their devices in every way possible, so why not offer them a way to read?” When we think about this as librarians, we spend thousands of dollars on books, databases, and periodicals, all to encourage reading from different sources. Why not add eReaders?
Why should we care about electronic readers?
Why should we care about electronic readers?
Why should we care about electronic readers?
Why should we care about electronic readers?
We have all hopefully witnessed the transformation in some students from being a reluctant reader to being an avid reader. As librarians we must be open to all methods of reading to give kids more practice and to give kids more options in the hopes of helping kids make this transition.
In Barry Cull’s article, “Reading Revolutions: Online Digital Test and Implications for Reading in Academe” Cull writes “thanks to the Internet and its medium of digital text accessed via personal computing devices, most people are reading very differently today than they were in the very recent past” (Cull).In that same article, Cull quotes Robert Darnton, the historian and Director of the Harvard University Library “The explosion of modes of communication is as revolutionary as the invention of printing with movable type”
