This is the program for Reality check – non-fiction readers advisory to be held at the State Library of New South Wales 3 March 2009. After the seminar this page will become a resource guide for non-fiction readers advisory work.

Reality check – non-fiction readers advisory
Tea/coffee 9.30am
10.00 Barbara Horgan from Shearers on Norton Street, Leichhardt will talk about latest non fiction trends, what staff and customers are reading. She will also talk about how they respond to current events
10.50 Non-fiction readers advisory - Ellen Forsyth (State Library of NSW) will be talking about stock selection, reading lists and the cross over with fiction readers advisory work
11.15 Secondary RA - Therese Scott - (Ashfield) will address the difficult question of how to help people selecting for their parents, children, teenagers, sick people, or other council staff. She will help you to ask the right questions (what questions to ask – and what not to ask) and provide some helpful resources.
11.40 Break out session with ideas for cross over reading lists - themes and content
Suggestions for discussion

• Crime and punishment - real and fictional stories of crimes
  
• All you need is love - tales of romance, real and imagined
• Searching for clues - solving real mysteries, and their fictional counterparts
• new technologies - science fiction and their factual counterparts
• reading green - focusing on the environment
• laughing until it hurts

lunch 12.20 – 1.20 make your own selection from local places
1.20 Non-fiction patron picks - Catherine Walsh, a reader from a public library will talk about her ideas on memoirs and biographies, what ones she enjoyed (or not enjoyed) and why.
1:35 Housebound Readers Advisory using Nancy Pearl’s gateways Ellen Forsyth (State Library of NSW)
1:40 I’ll have what she’s having: Non-fiction RA with Nancy Pearl’s gateways

• structured by the gateways - setting, language, story, characte

2:00 Renewal, Reviews & Rewards: interactions with readers Judy Atkinson - Coffs Harbour - Attached below.

2:25 afternoon tea
2:50 A Chinese language reading group Vivien Chung from Willoughby Library will talk about her experiences in setting up a reading group in another language.
3:15 Resources for non-fiction RA

• databases Merilyn Hills from Hornsby
  
• web 2.0 Ellen Forsyth
• RA wiki : Jenn Martin