Read one book and call me in the morning…

The English newspaper The Guardian has a fascinating article on shelters, neurological rehab units, psychiatric wards, and hospitals using book groups as therapy for people with learning disabilities, Alzheimers, mental health problems; prisoners, recovering drug-addicts, nurses and carers. They are using bibliotherapy as an “experiment in healing, or, to put it less grandiosely, an attempt to see whether reading can alleviate pain or mental distress.” If you have tried the Library Worth Calculator you know how much money the Library save you every year. One thing we didn’t think to factor in was our capacity to restore well being to readers.