O'Brien and Dillon present Guys Read evaluation
Professors David O'Brien and Deborah Dillon (Curriculum and Instruction) presented the results of their two-year evaluation of Hennepin County Library's Guys Read book discussion program in March. Their audience was more than 100 librarians from all parts of the country attending the national conference of the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association.
In her letter of thanks, Gretchen Wronka, Youth Services and Outreach Coordinator at the Hennepin County Library wrote: “Drs. O'Brien and Dillon's Guys Read research is ground-breaking. No other public library in the country has engaged in this kind of academic, neutral evaluation of a children's book discussion program."
Several C&I graduate students are also part of this project: Cassie Scharber, Brad Biggs, Kristen Nichols-Besel, and Beth Brendler.