Making choices: What readers say about choosing books to read for pleasure

Acquisitions Librarian

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5-21

  Ross, Catherine Sheldrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiction; Popular reading; Readers advisory; Selection factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015095425     PISSN: 08963576     EISSN: 1544435X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J101v13n25_02     Document Type: Article

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