4 Replies to “Innovation Roadmap: Awe for Audiobooks”
Hello Emily!
As someone who works with the children’s librarian at my library, I found your innovation roadmap really inspiring.
A silent audiobook club is a great way to get tweens involved with the library while creating healthy reading habits for tweens owning smartphones for the first time.
I appreciated the statistic you included about the desire to read dropping among tweens. This is important to acknowledge in the library profession because it helps us create a plan of prevention.
Your presentation made me want to invest in this program as a way to continue to instill a lifelong love of reading and learning in a population that is increasingly drifting away from reading due to technology. Audiobooks are a great way to use technology as a tool to convince tweens to pick up their phones and listen to a book.
Thank you, Rahab! I’m observing my own tween’s reading habits at home and going with it. Less reading a physical book before bed, more listening to audiobooks while going about her busier and more independent daily schedule.
@emilyelizabeth This presentation is awesome! Like @rlawshea I also work closely with our children’s librarian and feel this program would really resonate with her. Tweens are an interesting sub-section of library users- maturity level can really vary, and also how influential (open or closed) a parent is toward content plays a role in material selection. I like that you included the idea that this program fosters tweens learning about what books and authors they are drawn to- it’s a great way for this age group to get to know themselves.
Thank you! Great point re: parents and content. I think I meant to point that out. It gives them that privacy they crave. Parents can look at Libby parental controls to set content limits, if needed.
Hello Emily!
As someone who works with the children’s librarian at my library, I found your innovation roadmap really inspiring.
A silent audiobook club is a great way to get tweens involved with the library while creating healthy reading habits for tweens owning smartphones for the first time.
I appreciated the statistic you included about the desire to read dropping among tweens. This is important to acknowledge in the library profession because it helps us create a plan of prevention.
Your presentation made me want to invest in this program as a way to continue to instill a lifelong love of reading and learning in a population that is increasingly drifting away from reading due to technology. Audiobooks are a great way to use technology as a tool to convince tweens to pick up their phones and listen to a book.
Great post, Emily.
Thank you, Rahab! I’m observing my own tween’s reading habits at home and going with it. Less reading a physical book before bed, more listening to audiobooks while going about her busier and more independent daily schedule.
@emilyelizabeth This presentation is awesome! Like @rlawshea I also work closely with our children’s librarian and feel this program would really resonate with her. Tweens are an interesting sub-section of library users- maturity level can really vary, and also how influential (open or closed) a parent is toward content plays a role in material selection. I like that you included the idea that this program fosters tweens learning about what books and authors they are drawn to- it’s a great way for this age group to get to know themselves.
Thank you! Great point re: parents and content. I think I meant to point that out. It gives them that privacy they crave. Parents can look at Libby parental controls to set content limits, if needed.