Zur Erinnerung an Roger Willemsen

In Gedenken an einen Fürsprecher von Bibliotheken hier die Rede des heute leider verstorbenen Roger Willemsen vom 101. Bibliothekartag in Hamburg (2012). Ab der 50. Minute und 10 Sekunden beginnt seine Rede.

“Können Kinderbücher die Welt verändern?”

Können Bücher dabei helfen aus Leser/-innen bessere Menschen zu machen? Linda Sue Park spricht darüber, wie der regelmäßige Konsum von Bücher Antworten auf Ungerechtigkeiten im Leben geben kann und wie Empathie bei Protagonisten in Büchern dazu zu mehr Engagement führt, welche einen bedeuten Beitrag im echten Leben leisten kann. Linda Sue Park ist die Autorin vieler Bücher für junge Leser, unter anderen schrieb sie “A SINGLE SHARD” oder “A LONG WALK TO WATER”.

[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2014

What is the next thing that you should read? It’s not simply the thing that will have the lowest barrier to embracing it. One of the great virtues of libraries is that they have the reader’s interests at heart. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all humans trump all algorithms.” David Weinberger

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[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2013

A book cannot be selective of its readership; nor can it insist upon the conditions under which it is read or received. The degree to which a book is successful depends only on the degree to which it is loved. All a starred review amounts to is an expression of brand loyalty, an assertion of personal preference for one brand of literature above another. It is as hopelessly beside the point as giving four stars to your mother, three stars to your childhood, or two stars to your cat.

[Infografik] Eine Klassifikation von Buchliebhabern & anderen Lesern

Laura E. Kelly hat eine Infografik erstellt, deren Titel “Which Book Reader Species Are You?” lautet. Sie nahm damit eine Klassifikation unterschiedlicher Lesertypen vor:

“We all live in the Domain of Readers—but what species of book reader are you? This fun, appropriately wordy infographic is my homage to the classic Linnaean classification charts of plants and living things. In this case, we’re describing and classifying close to 50 reader species—from the folks who see books as precious display objects to those who sort of hate reading.”

Quelle: Mediabistro

[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2014

Librarians are “unreservedly” on the side of the reader, and often attempt to expand the reader’s interests and stretch his worldview. If you’re Amazon, you want to recommend books that people like, so they’ll come back. But if you’ve read Gone Girl, then Amazon is likely to recommend books that are very much like Gone Girl in all the best ways they can find. A librarian is likely also to recommend things very much like Gone Girl, but maybe she’ll also suggest books that are not exactly like Gone Girl and are more of a risk.” David Weinberger

[Infografik] Die fünf Gesetze der Bibliothekswissenschaft


Quelle: Mediabistro

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