Things That Promote Reading

The five laws of library science are five key principals designed around the concept of making using the library as easy & user friendly as possible for the library patron. Library staff are supposed to keep their customers in mind & ease of access & use when deciding on materials & services to offer. Both  Ranganathan's old laws & Gorman's new laws are designed to make visiting the library & taking advantage of the services available as enjoyable as possible fo r the customers. These laws help to promote reading by making libraries more user friendly & customer focused. Despite the reality that libraries offer so much more than books, many people believe that libraries only offer books, therefore it's where they're likely to turn to when looking for a certain book or to start reading again after a long period of not reading. A library that is said to be friendly & easy to use & usually has what customers are after is more likely to...

https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/show/7501-2018-reading-challenge The Goodreads Reading Challenge lets users set a number of books they plan on reading for the year. It then marks their progress as they finish each book and shows them how they're going with their challenge. When users complete their reading challenge they are congratulated while their reading progress is still marked against their original goal so that they can see by how much they beat it. This is a somewhat effective way to promote reading by adding a competitive element to reading because users can compare their own goal and progress against their friends and followers on Goodreads. Users can even compare their own progress against previous years if they have been doing the challenge yearly. This encourages them to read more in order to beat not only their friends and followers but also their own previous records. However the Goodreads Reading Challenge doesn't really reach anyone who doesn'...