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This wiki is to provide resources, ideas, and tips for public library staff to use as part of their readers advisory services. It is managed by the New South Wales Readers Advisory Group, however, people from libraries elsewhere are welcome to join.

This wiki is about promoting the enjoyment of reading and our library collections.

Check out the Read watch play themed reading group and promote it to your community. Make sure you tell everyone what you are reading (#rwpchat). There are some great ideas, including two presentations, about how you can promote this to your community. It really is very easy as the hard work has already been done.

History in the Dixson was a great day, you can catch up with presentations you missed.


Dates for 2013

The next Readers Advisory Group meeting will be held on 20th June at Katoomba, 9.30am til 4pm (or a bit earlier). The meeting will include a planning session for the 2014 twitter reading group. Blue Mountains Library are generously providing morning tea at 9.30 (meeting starts at 10am), then lunch and a tour of the library/Cultural Centre before our afternoon session. The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre is at 30 Parke Street Katoomba. There is parking underneath the centre (entrance off Parke St) and it is about a 5 minute walk from the station. To be admitted, before the Centre's usual opening time of 10am, please wait outside the Froma Street entrance. Please RSVP to Leisa Radford at Katoomba lradford@bmcc.nsw.gov.au.

The Readers Advisory Seminar ' Read Around The World' took place 6 March 2013 at the State Library of NSW. Links are available to most of the presentations.


Congratulations
The New South Wales Readers’ Advisory Working Group was the winner of the
2011 Marketing Awards for NSW Public Libraries Social Media category for Readit2011, a Twitter reading group; sponsored by Good Reading magazine.






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narellenolan Susan Boyle: Living the dream by John McShane 0 Oct 29 2011, 1:27 AM EDT by narellenolan
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Susan Boyle auditioned 'I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables) on Britain's reality program: Britain's Got Talent. McShane recounts in his biography of Boyle that on the occasion of her audition the audience and the judges' behaviour showed that they did not believe that this middle aged Scotish woman could 'entertain' them. But entertain them she did! In fact, Susan Boyle became a superstar.
This gently narrated story takes the reader on the journey that Susan took from her difficult birth with resulting learning disabilities, singing in her local church and at the local pub to celebrity status.
Sadly Susan suffers from the pressures and expectations of stardom and is placed in care. Susan's life so far has been for music and singing. Her faith and sense of humour have sustained her so far. Let's hope we hear more of her magical voice.
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narellenolan Heaven Preserve Us by Cricket McRae 0 Oct 3 2011, 6:25 AM EDT by narellenolan
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'Heaven preserve us' is peopled with likeable characters who engage in voluntary work and practise the skill of preserving surplus fruit and vegetables and sharing the fruits of their efforts at the local crisis centre. This story is number two in the Home Crafting mystery and is set in suburban Cadyville in Washington State.
Sophie Mae, the main character, is not only skilled in soap and cosmetic manufacture but she volunteers at a local crisis centre where a case of botulism has killed her boss, Philip Heaven, the Manager of Heaven House. Philip has secured funding for several programs but nothing has happened . In fact, overdue notices for utilities point to misappropration of funds.
A second case of botulism hospitalises her boyfriend Detective, Barr Ambrose.
Sophie Mae is also an amateur sleuth, which causes much worry to her boy friend , who believes that she is under threat from a stalker known as the 'Cadyville Creep'. Undeterred Sophie Mae investigates the botulisum cases with no help from the local police force.
Add to this plot single mum, Meghan, her daughter,Erin and an ageing corgi who share a house with Sophie Mae and you have a credible plot with several red herrings, particulary Meghan's new boyfriend , also a volunteer at Heaven House, who does not have a past.
McRae has written a cozy food mystery for readers who also like a dash of home craft thrown into the plot.
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narellenolan Death in the stocks by Georgette Heyer 0 Aug 4 2011, 1:57 AM EDT by narellenolan
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Heyer's mystery written in 1935 captures the lives and times of wealthy young people where marrying for money and not for love was an admirable pursuit even if it included murdering relatives of the 'catch' who get in the way.
Like many of her mysteries Heyer writes a well plotted tale where suspense, violence and passion are low key even though two murders keep supterintendent Hannasyde distracted chasing 'red herrings'.
The story opens with the discovery of a body in the village stocks by a bobby on a bicycle. It closes with broken promises of marriage and the discovery of a gold digger who just could not stop at one murder.
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