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Motivating students to become lifelong readers by engaging in leisure reading is one of my
goals as a teacher-librarian. However, based on my daily experience at my junior-senior
high school and our circulation statistics, it seems that leisure reading decreases dramatically
at the senior high level.
One goal of this project was to gather information regarding the reading habits and attitudes
toward reading of senior high students and factors that either discourage or motivate leisure
reading at this level. Data was also collected concerning student usage and opinion of the
school library. A second goal was to explore the implications of the collected data and
suggest ways I, as teacher-librarian, and those senior high English teachers involved in the
project can respond to this information in order to encourage our senior high students to
engage in leisure reading.