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{ THE FUTURE OF READERS } ADVISORY
Melissa Jeffrey
What is
Reader’s
Advisory?
{ What is Reader’s Advisory? }
• Finding the right book for the right
person at the right time.
• Helping readers find the best, most
enjoyable reading that matches their
needs, interests, and reading level.
• Connecting readers and authors/writers.
http://www.olc.org/ore/2readers.htm
{ How Do We Do RA? }
• Pathfinders
• Bookmarks
• Signs
• Topical Monthly Displays
• Blog posts / Facebook Posts
• Shelftalkers
• Special Collections
• Modified Book Store Model @ WW
{ In Person Advisory }
Patron: Hi. My name is Dave
Librarian: Hello Dave. How can I help you?
Patron: I’m looking for a book to read.
Librarian: What kind of book?
Patron: Well what do you read?
Librarian: [there is no way I’m telling them
I mostly read fantastical young adult
stories with love triangles that I can read
in an hour]
« Going online and
asking questions
is the best way
to learn. »
- Tom Felton
(Draco Malfoy)
{ NEW Online Approach }
• Subject Guide for
Books
• Online component of
Ian’s Public New
Release List
• Form Based Reader’s
Advisory
{ More Access
Points }
{ Experts on Hand }
{ Time Constraints } { Less Time
Constraints }
{ Subject Guide for Books }
• Tacit Knowledge Transfer
• 24/7 Availability
• Frontline Staff Can Use
{ Ian’s Public New Release List }
• From Excel Spreadsheet to Online
• Frontline Staff will be encouraged to
use
{ Form Based RA }
• Readers take time to reflect on
what they want
• Staff take time to really understand
the needs of the patron
Tulsalibrary.org
{ Form Based RA }
• Boost to staff Morale:
– RA superstars
– Connect meaningfully with patrons
{ Form Based RA }
• Boost to staff Morale:
– RA superstars
– Connect meaningfully with patrons
Tulsalibrary.org
http://lis.cua.edu/res/docs/symposium/2011
-symposium/trott.pdf
{ Looking for a Good Book }
• Characters and/or Relationships,
• Plot (action, pace, genre),
• Setting (place, time, mood),
• Theme or Subject,
• Affect of the Book (emotional state on the
reader).
How Can You
Help?
{ News About
Books }
{ Keep up with
Library World }
{ Good Reads }
Resources
• Form Based Reader’s Advisory
• Research Based Reader’s Advisory
• Reader’s Advisory Out of the Box
• GoodReads
• Tulsa
http://www.slideshare.net/ALATechSource/re-
thinking-readers-advisory-73113
• Also «Your Next Great Read» Library Journal.
October 15, 2013 p. 54-57