Book Clubs in Academic Libraries: A Case Study and Toolkit

Abstract

This toolkit is designed to inform the academic librarian or staff member about book clubs hosted in an academic library. The toolkit guides academic librarians and staff through building meaningful and effective book clubs at their institutions through an overview of extant literature, the results of a cross-institutional survey, a case-study, and through a series of best practices. It provides the academic librarian and staff with language about the vision and value of such a program. ix