12 Months – 12 Reading Experiences
After a very successfull 2010 Librarians Reading Challenge, the NSW Readers Advisory Group are inviting library staff to take part in the 2011 Librarians Reading Challenge. You can also participate in the 2011 Twitter Reading Group. 2011 Librarians Reading Challenge Each month in 2011, you are encouraged to read items on a set theme and to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )FictFact
FictFact is a site for those who like to read books in a series and do a bit of social networking while they are about it. You create a free account and then you can create lists of favourite series, read the books in order and get notified when books are released or added. You [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )National Year of Reading 2012
The National Year of Reading Australia which will occur in 2012 was launched earlier this week. Check out their web site here: www.love2read.org.au. This is inspired by the National of Reading UK which happened in 2008. See the UK site: www.readingforlife.org.uk The Readers Advisory Group has added a page to their wiki where [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )YourNextRead
Here’s a nifty site: YourNextRead At YourNextRead you can enter the name of a book or author or genre you enjoy reading and you will be given a choice of books to try next. Here’s the result of my search using Wolf Hall (just won the first Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction): It’s a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Suggesting Machine
Not sure what to read next? Here’s something you could try, The Bookulating Suggest-O-Mometer Click on here to try it
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Readers’ Advisory Training #2
And so the second enthusiastic group of new Rewarding Reading graduates finished the course. No cricket this week but they came up with more good ideas about Readers’ Advisory things we can get up to.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Readers’ Advisory Training
Congratulations to the first group who finished their Rewarding Reading Readers’ Advisory training on Wednesday 17th March. Rita, Melanie, Maxine, Gillian, Aniko, Eleonora and Vanessa have worked hard, given their all and hopefully learned some new skills to enhance their enjoyment and commitment to their work and our library services. Thank you for your enthusiastic participation. Vicki joined us [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Nancy Pearl’s Under the Radar Reading Recommendations
Uberlibrarian Nancy Pearl has a list of Under-the-radar gift books for the holiday season. In NPR she says, “When it comes time to take stock of the year in books, it’s inevitable that a few titles will escape notice in the rush to hand out accolades. Here are a few books that flew “under the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Patrons Tales
Another RA idea, this time from Marla at Great Falls Public Library A patron suggested the library purchase a blank journal book and make it available for patrons to write their own thoughts, stories, etc. in. A staff member purchased a nice “old looking” journal, fairly large-sized (maybe 8 1/2″ x 11″). The covers are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Readers Advisory work
The following was a response in the Fiction-L list for librarians interested in Readers Advisory. People had been asked about what sort of stuff they do to improve their service. This reply was from David Wright at Seattle Public Library which has an interesting blog, ShelfTalk. We rove also; or rather, our dept. -the Fiction [...]
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