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School Library Circulation Records: What Do They Reveal About Boys' Reading Preferences?, Chelsea Sims
School Library Circulation Records: What Do They Reveal About Boys' Reading Preferences?, Chelsea Sims
Graduate Research Papers
The purpose of this study was to examine what if any patterns emerge in the library checkout habits of elementary school age boys in consecutive grades and to compare them to common assumptions of which books boys prefer to read. A quantitative bibliometric method was used to analyze and count the circulation records of forty-four students over a three year period. The circulations to the boys in the study were compared to the circulations to the girls. Records revealed that on average, boys in third grade borrowed more books than the girls in the study, but girls selected more books …