TY - JOUR
AU - Wiebenga, Barry
AB -  37 LOGOS Measuring reading literacy in thirty-five countries Barry Wiebenga A sociology graduate of the University of Amsterdam, Barry Wiebenga started his publishing career in 1964 at J M Meulenhoff. In 1974 he became a lecturer at the Frederik Muller Academy, the academic training institute for bookselling, publishing, librarianship and documentation, and from 1988 to 1999 served as Dean. He was a member of the National Organizing Committee of the 64th Conference of IFLA in Amsterdam. Today he is Managing Director of Stichting Lezen (The Foundation for Reading Promotion) in the Netherlands and Chairman of the European Platform for the Promotion of Reading (EU*READ). Email: info@lezen.nl Without readers, there would be no publishers. The same goes for booksellers, librarians – and even for authors (if we ignore oral literature). W h a t d o b o o k p r o f e s s i o n a l s r e a l l y k n o w about what reading requires and involves? About the most effective ways of creating new genera- tions of readers? Too little, with the exception of educational publishers, whose role in this vital activity is often underestimated. Literacy 
TI - Measuring reading literacy in thirty-five countries
JF - Logos
DO - 10.2959/logo.2004.15.1.37
DA - 2004-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/measuring-reading-literacy-in-thirty-five-countries-7siiheWzg0
SP - 37
EP - 42
VL - 15
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -