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A survey of young people's reading in England

Borrowing and choosing books

Sally Maynard

Department of Information Science at Loughborough University,s.e.maynard{at}lboro.ac.uk

Sophie Mackay

Global Education Centre, East London, and Roehampton University, UK

Fiona Smyth

School of Social and Political Studies at EdinburghUniversity

This article reports on selected results of a comprehensive survey of children's reading in England, carried out online in 2005 by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Roehampton University. With 4182 responses from children living in England aged from 4 to 16 years, the survey is a follow-up to a similar study completed in 1996. The article concentrates on those issues included in the survey which are of particular interest to children's librarians, specifically questions relating to borrowing books, choosing books, reading recommendations, book reviews, school libraries and classroom book corners.

Key Words: Book borrowing • Book choice • Children's librarianship • Children's reading • Online questionnaire • Young people's reading

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Vol. 40, No. 4, 239-253 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0961000608096714
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