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Improve Your Readers' Advisory | NoveList - EBSCO

Build Your Skills with Learn with NoveList. With a subscription to Learn with NoveList, library staff gets quality, expert training in readers' advisory. These ...

Reader's advisory tips, please? : r/Libraries - Reddit

My recommendation would be to read about lots of different books. You don't have to read the actual books, but read about them so you know what's getting buzz.

Readers' Advisory: The Most Important Class for New Librarians

Use it to help your patrons find new books. Use it yourself to learn about unfamiliar genres and get ideas of books to read. It will help you in learning how to ...

Tips, Tricks, and Tools For Upping Your Readers Advisory Skills

Pair similar authors. Along the same lines as recommending diverse books within the same genre is keeping a running mental list of popular ...

Two Simple Tricks for Reader's Advisory - ALSC Blog

Reader's Advisory is not only about being well-read, it's also about knowing how to provide patrons with choices. Young patrons, especially, ...

Readers' advisory - WebJunction

Find resources to help you develop your readers advisory skills so that you can help patrons find the right book for them.

Improve Your Readers' Advisory | NoveList | EBSCO

Use our search strategy handouts to tackle challenging reader questions and library scenarios. In each Search Strategy, we present a common scenario that you ...

Directory of Readers' Advisory Activities: Introduction

For decades public librarians have honed their skills in what is known in the library world as “Readers' Advisory Service.” This means that they have studied ...

Journaling for Readers' Advisory

Use your journal. The more you exercise your appeals vocabulary, match books to other books and readers, and reflect on story elements in a ...

How To Help Librarians Help You Find Your Next Read

When you ask a librarian for help finding the next good book you want to read, we call that “Reader's Advisory.”

How to Recommend Books: A Crash Course in Reader's Advisory

Your recommendation just won't click with someone else. To every book, its reader. Let it go and move on. Ask them about their favorite recent ...

How-To RA: Readers' Advisory Basics with Shellie - YouTube

Dive into the world of Reader's Advisory with Shellie. Learn about what RA is, appeal factors, and a few more tips and tricks to give your ...

Improving Readers' Advisory with Data and Research

Trott also touted the benefits of form-based readers' advisory—where an intake form is administered for those looking for reading ...

Reader's Advisory - Eagle Public Library

What is a Reader's Advisory Guide? It's a directory to help you figure out what to read now and what to read next. Let your interests and your curiosity ...

Unlocking Themes To Improve Your Readers' Advisory - RA for All

Unlocking Themes To Improve Your Readers' Advisory: Repost and Reminder. In the last few weeks, the idea of using themes in tandem with appeal ...

Readers' advisory - WebJunction Course Catalog

Knowing how your community may react to its inclusion in your library will increase your value as the community's readers' advisor and/or fiction collection ...

Readers' Advisory and Reference Services

Different resources may work better for different situations, librarians, and readers. It's nice to provide the person a variety of choices of ...

Unlocking Themes to Improve Your Readers' Advisory - YouTube

From Rookie on the Beat to Secret Babies, there are dozens of themes that your readers adore. Let RA expert Becky Spratford and metadata ...

Finding a "good book": What a real readers advisor does

“Readers advisor” (RA) is a library term for somebody who can help a reader find a book that person would like to read. It is an art form which ...

Readers' Advisory - Public Libraries Connect

You can foster and promote a love of reading by referring members to the next best-read using author lists, developing profiles online and searching useful ...