... local newspaper services to their patrons during the evolution of formats. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Libraries Newspapers Print Digital Readers Local Such dire warnings, predictions and stark realities have made headlines across international borders. In the USA...

...Keren Dali Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address a somewhat under‐researched aspect of readers' advisory services in public libraries in North America, namely, readers' advisory for immigrant readers, with a particular emphasis on the readers' advisory interaction/interview. Design...

...Mike Freeman Edited by Susan   Hornby and Bob   Glass . Reader Development in Practice: Bringing Literature to Readers . London : Facet Publishing   2008 . 224 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐85064‐624‐4   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Reader...

... as help give people a say in how their communities are run through community meetings, MPs' surgeries and local consultation discussions (MLA, 2005). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Public libraries Community relations Partnership Library buildings Readers United Kingdom...

...Anne Peoples; Trisha Ward Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a major reader development initiative delivered by a cross‐border partnership, involving two public library authorities (one in Ireland and one in the UK). It aims to outline the strategies and activities developed...

...Mike Freeman So, an interesting and well written book posing some hard questions to the LIS profession – not least, how to make libraries and reading more relevant to the “excluded groups” within our society; how to train our staff in reader development work and how to harness the internet's...

... literature. On the other hand, reading is defined as reading. Listening to books on tape or CD is in another category and does not count as “reading.” The study documents an overall decline of 10 percentage points in literary readers from 1982 to 2002, representing a loss of 20 million potential readers...