Early in 2018 Catherine Ross, Lynne McKechnie, and Paulette Rothbauer published “Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community.” Twelve years after their first book on the topic, “Reading Matters,” the authors discuss reading, readers, the role of libraries, changing technologies and, emphatically, why reading still matters.

A transcript of this episode is available from our website: http://sowhat.fims.uwo.ca/1-1-reading-still-matters/

Episode producer: Mike Ridley