Some of our students and staff show their favourite reading material.
The results of the survey can be seen in the table at the wiki
http://denitafelibrarywhatsnewfeb2008.wikispaces.com/reading+survey+September2008
There were 36 Respondents to the reading survey.
The thing most people had been reading on the day of the survey was work or study related, with an occasional novel or newspaper thrown in. I loved the fact that some people had obviously been reading story books to their kids , very important for encouraging reading. (The play on nursery rhymes book “ Each Peach Pear Plumb” is one of my all time favourites kids books). The favourite books were also a mixture with some people enjoying poetry, a special author such as Isabelle Allende , Coban, Bryce Courtney or a series. A number of the same magazines popped up. People seemed to like magazines with either a car or home themes. “Better Homes and Gardens” could be a good one to get for the library. By far the most popular newspaper was the Deniliquin Pastoral Times. Even people who said they didn’t read, read that. The Herald sun was the next most read paper but people obviously loved the local news best. The choice of Websites was also interesting, some people couldn’t decide. Some people never looked at the internet, where as others had definite favourites. Google was an obvious one. A few people liked the communication websites such as Face book and Myspace and a few loved the shopping website Ebay. I daresay many liked to talk and shop and read at the same time. Anything is possible on the net.
It certainly is interesting to see what people like to read and how much reading is part of our every day lives often without us even realising. Occasionally I would have to prompt people when they said they had read nothing that day but were at a computer checking their emails. Thanks to everyone for participating in National Reading day (http://nationalreadingday.nlnw.edu.au/). National reading day is an important reminder of what an essential survival tool in the modern world reading is. As the United nations reported when launching the Literacy decade, many people in the world today still cannot read or write.
http://www.drh-movement.org/Articel.asp?NewsID=100
The thing most people had been reading on the day of the survey was work or study related, with an occasional novel or newspaper thrown in. I loved the fact that some people had obviously been reading story books to their kids , very important for encouraging reading. (The play on nursery rhymes book “ Each Peach Pear Plumb” is one of my all time favourites kids books). The favourite books were also a mixture with some people enjoying poetry, a special author such as Isabelle Allende , Coban, Bryce Courtney or a series. A number of the same magazines popped up. People seemed to like magazines with either a car or home themes. “Better Homes and Gardens” could be a good one to get for the library. By far the most popular newspaper was the Deniliquin Pastoral Times. Even people who said they didn’t read, read that. The Herald sun was the next most read paper but people obviously loved the local news best. The choice of Websites was also interesting, some people couldn’t decide. Some people never looked at the internet, where as others had definite favourites. Google was an obvious one. A few people liked the communication websites such as Face book and Myspace and a few loved the shopping website Ebay. I daresay many liked to talk and shop and read at the same time. Anything is possible on the net.
It certainly is interesting to see what people like to read and how much reading is part of our every day lives often without us even realising. Occasionally I would have to prompt people when they said they had read nothing that day but were at a computer checking their emails. Thanks to everyone for participating in National Reading day (http://nationalreadingday.nlnw.edu.au/). National reading day is an important reminder of what an essential survival tool in the modern world reading is. As the United nations reported when launching the Literacy decade, many people in the world today still cannot read or write.
http://www.drh-movement.org/Articel.asp?NewsID=100
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