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15.12.14

It’s Not About the Books: Three Approaches for Serving Reluctant Readers

Solving the reluctant reader conundrum
In this article, Heather Booth offers three strategies for pulling in reluctant teen readers.

"It's a perennial problem -- the reluctant reader conundrum. How can we convince these potential readers that there's something great in our collections just waiting for them? [...]  Here are three strategies to consider that are about the most important part of our library: our patrons.

  • "Challenge!"
  • "Made you Look!"
  • "Rewind and Frame"
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