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    Meeting the Needs of Avid Book Readers: Access, Space, Concentration Support and Barrier Mitigation

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    Authors
    Merga, Margaret
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Merga, M. 2017. Meeting the Needs of Avid Book Readers: Access, Space, Concentration Support and Barrier Mitigation. Journal Of Library Administration. 57 (1): pp. 49-68.
    Source Title
    Journal Of Library Administration
    DOI
    10.1080/01930826.2016.1185854
    ISSN
    0193-0826
    School
    School of Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67451
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    © 2017, Published with license by Taylor & Francis. Contemporary libraries perform multiple roles that greatly expand the scope of traditional service and resource provision. In order to determine how libraries can best meet the needs of avid book reading clientele, more needs to be known about their preferences of access and space, as well as barriers to their concentration and performance of sustained reading. Findings from the 2015 International Study of Avid Book Readers suggest that libraries should offer comfortable and quiet spaces conducive to reading for pleasure, that are responsive to the time, cost and concentration barriers that avid readers face, and not assume that avid readers will easily adapt to library environments with elevated noise levels.

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