Hi Caitlin
Thanks for a great article. I also think promoting reading is an important goal for libraries and not just because its important to promote their own content. Not everyone is a confident reader, myself included, and libraries have the opportunity to give confidence to those readers who may just struggle to find a book that they can relate to. There must be some value to reading the book, most of the time for enjoyment, but also, as previous posts have mentioned, allow the reader to better themselves as a person. This could just be that they are introduced to a different point-of-view or a single idea they would never have been introduced to if they had not read that one particular book. RAs have an important and exciting role of initiating these experiences through interacting with their patrons and as well as selecting books for the library’s collection.