http://plablog.org/2007/10/boston-publisher-appeals-to-boys-with-nonfiction.html Official Blog of the Public Library Association Mon, 14 May 2012 15:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://plablog.org/2007/10/boston-publisher-appeals-to-boys-with-nonfiction.html/comment-page-1#comment-1745 Leseförderung für Jungen « Globolibro: das internationale Bibliotheksblog Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:25:00 +0000 http://plablog.org/2007/10/boston-publisher-appeals-to-boys-with-nonfiction.html#comment-1745 [...] Link: Bericht im PLA Blog [...] [...] Link: Bericht im PLA Blog [...]

]]> http://plablog.org/2007/10/boston-publisher-appeals-to-boys-with-nonfiction.html/comment-page-1#comment-1741 Emily Wilson Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:31:32 +0000 http://plablog.org/2007/10/boston-publisher-appeals-to-boys-with-nonfiction.html#comment-1741 What I took from this piece is the concept of not having to "promote" non-fiction to boys, but to have a reasonably equal collection of fiction and non-fiction materials. Librarians need to be as familiar with non-fiction titles as fiction. This is obviously in part a gender issue -- far more female librarians knowing literature that appealed/appeals to them. And yes, that is a generalization, but I believe it is also the unspoken elephant in the room. What I took from this piece is the concept of not having to “promote” non-fiction to boys, but to have a reasonably equal collection of fiction and non-fiction materials. Librarians need to be as familiar with non-fiction titles as fiction. This is obviously in part a gender issue — far more female librarians knowing literature that appealed/appeals to them. And yes, that is a generalization, but I believe it is also the unspoken elephant in the room.

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