http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1745/what-if-everyone-read-one-of-four-books/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/1745/what-if-everyone-read-one-of-four-books/#comments Wed, 10 May 2006 23:30:02 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1745 The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts are getting together to correct the alleged “dramatic decline in literary reading” with a program called The Big Read. I’m sure librarians won’t mind getting some grant money, but can we admit that the decline in literary reading isn’t the same as a decline in reading, or book buying, or library attendance?

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