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Friday, August 24, 2012

Most librarians spend from six to 21 hours each week motivating students to read.

Remember when you were in elementary school? Often, one of the favorite times of the week was going to the school library to pick out a book to borrow. Later on in middle and high school, the library became a workplace that provided resources for research you were doing or a quiet place to study. Those type of activities are still going on inside school libraries, but there's a lot more too. A survey conducted by the Pennsylvania State Board of Education found that three-quarters of school libraries have purchased computers in the last five years and most librarians spend from six to 21 hours each week motivating students to read.