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Rural Youth, Reading And Libraries: Fostering A Place Ballet, Paulette Rothbauer

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This paper explores the place of the rural library in the context of reading habits of teens. Using Derek Seamon’s concept of the place ballet, four themes are discussed: daily reading practices, the visibility of the library, the Internet as a reading site and the temporal constraints on leisure reading.

Cet article explore la place des bibliothèques en milieu rural dans le contexte des habitudes de lecture des adolescents. À partir du concept de ballet collectif (place ballet) de Derek Seamon, quatre thèmes seront discutés : des exercices quotidiens de lecture, la visibilité de la bibliothèque, Internet comme site de …