Encouraging reading for pleasure and the comprehensive training for readers

This paper proposes an approach to renewing the teaching of readers how to cope with the complex demands of the information society. In this context, the role of the library in training, learning, and construction of sociability and culture requires examination; and librarianship needs to develop broadly conceived proposals that move beyond pedagogical reading models offered schools. Bildung provides guidance for the comprehensive training of readers across a variety of codes, thereby equipping trainees with reading skills needed to develop broader lexicons and other associated tools and cultural capital that are useful in the construction of knowledge. Moreover, such training enriches the subject with aesthetic experiences that have the potential to effectuate subjective transformation of citizens over the long term.