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| Title: | Adult New Reader Materials Available Here: A Survey of Literacy Materials Available in Three North Carolina Public Library Systems |
| Authors: | Elizabeth Borene |
| Keyword: | Immigrants -- Reading |
| Keyword: | Literacy |
| Keyword: | New literates -- Reading |
| Keyword: | Public libraries – Book selection |
| Keyword: | Public libraries – Services to illiterates |
| Issue Date: | 11-Apr-2006 |
| Publisher: | School of Information and Library Science |
| Abstract: | In 1999, researcher Denni Kay Scales asked the question: How do adult new readers find literacy materials in the public library? The following study is an attempt to continue the discussion by addressing a similar question in surveying three library systems in North Carolina, and also to evaluate the presence or absence of a separate literacy section. The findings point to even more diversity in subject matter and location than Scales found. The results of this study indicate that literacy materials, when carried by a public library, are rarely shelved in a separate literacy section, and sometimes even in more than one section of the main collections. This prompts the following questions: Is a literacy section needed in public libraries? What are the benefits of separating this material out for adult new readers? Should literacy materials be integrated with the main collections? |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1901/275 |
| Appears in Collections: | SILS Master's Papers |
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