Should We Have Given Them What They Wanted?

Chris Sloan

Courtyard at the Boston Public Library

Charles W. Robinson

Nora Rawlinson

The Notorious Book

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*Not M.C. Bob. Actual picture of M.C. Bob could not be obtained.

This gentleman has recently visited the library

Questions

• What is responsible for the change in types of materials with a high circulation rate between now and say, fifty years ago? Have the patrons’ interests changed?

• How do you anticipate this issue might progress as technology encompasses more and more facets of patron’s informational needs? What might libraries do to cope with this progression?

• The GTWTW plan did not have a huge impact on children’s literature- why is that do you think?

• What do you think of the concept of reader development? Is it

realistic for libraries to hope to engage readers in this way?