Class and Selection

Abstract

America's economic‐educational class system dominates book selection. This is evident to anyone who has worked at acquisitions and selection in a library. Over the years it has been pretty well established that people who read books, who go to concerts, movies, and football games come from demographic groups with more income and more education than nonreaders or casual readers of newspapers and magazines. As a good education and income is limited, it's hardly a surprise that the use of libraries is a constant of about 20 to 30 percent of the adult population.

Citation

(1986), "Class and Selection", Collection Building, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 34-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023194