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From: Katelyn Browne <kbrowne_at_ccpcs.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:31:28 -0500
I don't know much about how these statistics are calculated, but how are purchases by libraries figured? Certainly among the young adults at my school, a typical student purchases at most 1-2 books a year, but they read many more that are purchased by the school and by the public library.
Particularly if we're talking about youth who don't have a lot of spare dollars, defining them by purchasing power alone seems dangerous. (And this might be somewhere that libraries as a publicly-funded service and publishing as an industry have very different perspectives!) I'd love to hear more about where these numbers come from and how non-purchasing readers are counted.
--Katelyn.
Katelyn Browne Middle/High School Librarian Capital City Public Charter School 100 Peabody Street NW Washington, DC 20011
(202) 387-0309 x1745 kbrowne_at_ccpcs.org http://www.ccpcs.org/library/
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:31:28 -0500
I don't know much about how these statistics are calculated, but how are purchases by libraries figured? Certainly among the young adults at my school, a typical student purchases at most 1-2 books a year, but they read many more that are purchased by the school and by the public library.
Particularly if we're talking about youth who don't have a lot of spare dollars, defining them by purchasing power alone seems dangerous. (And this might be somewhere that libraries as a publicly-funded service and publishing as an industry have very different perspectives!) I'd love to hear more about where these numbers come from and how non-purchasing readers are counted.
--Katelyn.
Katelyn Browne Middle/High School Librarian Capital City Public Charter School 100 Peabody Street NW Washington, DC 20011
(202) 387-0309 x1745 kbrowne_at_ccpcs.org http://www.ccpcs.org/library/
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