Analysis and Enlightenment of Children Reading Promotion in Chicago Public Library

Abstract

Abstract:

To promote children reading and create a reading atmosphere, the Chicago Public Library has been launching a series of projects in which “Summer Learning Challenge” is a typical representation. The article analyses the activity from the perspectives of its target users, user activities and main participants,
and, by introducing the problems of children reading promotion in domestic public libraries as a whole sums up some ideas for improvement, namely, launching children's reading promotion by grading, optimizing the content and forms of the activity, allying with multiple external agencies to launch the reading promotion.

Key words: Public library, Children reading, Reading promotion

Zhou Yonghong, Chen Si. Analysis and Enlightenment of Children Reading Promotion in Chicago Public Library[J]. LIBRARY JOURNAL.

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