Alif Hossain
alifhossain1994@gmail.com

Swapna Banerjee
swapna.banerjee98@gmail.com

University of Calcutta
Department of Library and Information Science, Calcutta, India

doi: 10.19090/cit.2024.44.106-118
No. 44 (May 2024), p. 106-118

The Concept of Readability from a Librarian’s Perspective

Summary

In our present society, there is a need for information that will help individuals in decision-making and developing personal policies and will help them to transform into better information-literate citizens. An information-literate citizen can help generate new information by combining or analyzing all the information he or she has gained. It would develop new theories, which would lead to the generation of new knowledge. A reader needs to understand the document to process the information that is presented in it. This is where the feature of readability comes into play. In layman’s language, readability can be described as the ability of the written content to make the reader easily understand the information. This paper aims to provide a review of the articles that are related to readability. The review is done by searching for relevant articles on Google Scholar and analyzing them. Also, the paper aims to support readability studies in libraries as they can play a huge role in selecting appropriate books for users.

Keywords:

information literacy, readability, readability formula, readability score, readability test, libraries, collection development

Submitted: 23rd September 2022
Correction to the manuscript: 6th June 2023
Accepted for publication: 5th February 2024

The Concept of Readability from a Librarian’s Perspective by Alif Hossain, Swapna Banerjee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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