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Talking about books – small group discussion around readers advisory hot topics
During the morning session, participants split into groups and discussed some Readers Advisory hot topics and reported to the whole group.
Please add your expanded discussion points from the morning below. (can the first person who adds from each topic please create a new page below for that topic!).
Book Groups - Hints and Tips
- perhaps have a theme based group, not a specific monthly book, for example, the sea, music, an author. It opens the group up to non fiction, music, poetry and so on. It is also felt that this option can encourage more men into the book group
- give the book group your new releases
- to encourage YA, make sure any book group has pizza!
- encourage the book group to contribute to your blog or wiki (if you are allowed to have one!)
- advertise in your newsletter (if you have one)
- if you have staff lead the group, make sure they promote the rest of the library service to the group at each meeting
- consider the zone concept - gives greater access to books, which can be hard to obtain through ILL when everyone wants the same book at the same time.
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| Mookstar | Staff involvement in Readers' Advisory work - how to keep them keen? | 3 | May 27 2008, 10:39 AM EDT by Tem | ||
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Another Group Discussion at the Seminar was about staff involvement in RA work – how do you get people involved and keep them keen?
Here is our Top Ten: 1. Value fiction reading – make it a priority to encourage a reading culture. Do this by asking everyone at a weekly staff meeting – what are you reading? Or take it in turns to review a book at each staff meeting. 2. Management support is required to encourage a culture of reading amongst staff. Managers should be leading by example talking about the books they are reading, asking staff what they are reading and being genuinely interested in the reply. 3. Have a borrowers competition and a staff competition – ie. Make a fun book title using an anagram of another title. 4. Do a display of suggested books on a different genre, eg, mystery, romance, crime etc Display books at the end each shelf. 5. Display books recommended by local identities eg. Local member, Mayor, sporting people, etc include their own books reviews. 6. Use Novelist to suggest books to borrowers, let them know about it. 7. Follow up with borrowers about their reading, when they return a book, ask did they enjoy or what did they think of it? 8. Encourage borrowers to write their own reviews – via website, or have cards for them to fill out or use thumbs up or thumbs down cards to put in books, have a display for public book reviews. 9. Promote what books are popular each month – on a noticeboard, newsletter, blog, website, flyer, local paper. 10. Read books yourself.
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| BonnySue | What Kind of Lists do You Use? | 0 | Mar 10 2008, 12:57 AM EDT by BonnySue | ||
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The above was the topic our group discussed when the seminar broke up into small discussion groups.
We found that the lists used could be divided into three types. 1. Manual lists - usually linked to the collection. These were generated by public demand and generally were produced as genre lists, though best-seller lists and most popular titles were also produced. They usually came in the form of actual lists, or bookmarks. Genres could include romance, medieval mysteries, nautical, thrillers, legal, westerns, horror etc. The main problems with printed lists were the cost of production and the fact that they became out-of-date quickly. 2. Weblinks. Some are produced by the library. These are usually found via reading links that include genre lists; author/title lists/best seller lists/ latest releases/ junior and teen fiction all linked to the library's collection via their website; as well as links to external links on the web. "Amazon" was also useful for lists of other titles bought by people purchasing a particular title. Databases such as "Novelist" "Fiction Connection" and "Whichbook.net" as well as the ALIA and Readers Advisory sites were also mentioned. Some sites enable very detailed needs to be catered for such as specifying a particular setting etc. However, the main problem with databases and external links is that the authors and books suggested may not be in the library's own collection. 3. The library's own catalogue may have genre searching and special areas such as "Premier's Reading Challenge" may also be accessible via the catalogue. Problems noted were finding out about new genres and sub-genres and the difficulties of categorizing many books initially into one particular genre, when they spanned several. We found this an interesting discussion and it clarified the various options available.
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