The Kids Are Alright, They Just Don’t Have Time (To Read)
Here’s some good reading-related news: Contrary to what a lot of librarians (and other people) believe, college students still like to read. They just don’t have the free time to do it as much as they’d like. So say Barbara Fister and Julie Gilbert, two librarians at Gustavus Adolphus College, in “Reading, Risk, and Reality: College Students and Reading for Pleasure,” a paper being published next summer in College and Research Libraries. The preprint is freely available now. The survey sample was a little too narrow for my editors at The Chronicle, so I thought I’d share some of the… Read more...
