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Discussion: Staff involvement in Readers' Advisory work - how to keep them keen?
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Mookstar |
Staff involvement in Readers' Advisory work - how to keep them keen?
Mar 16 2008, 6:55 PM EDT
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. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?
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lealealea |
1. RE: Staff involvement in Readers' Advisory work - how to keep them kee
Mar 25 2008, 11:10 PM EDT
I am curious about the customer book reviews and ready to go form to fill in; I am keen to give it a go, who else has done this, how does it work, are there keen book reviewers out there happy to put their thoughts on paper for all to read
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Tem |
2. RE: Staff involvement in Readers' Advisory work - how to keep them kee
May 27 2008, 10:09 AM EDT
Hi Mookstar,Thanks for putting up 10 tips on keeping your staff keen. I think this is an important issue, no matter how great the training is, it's hard to keep staff motivated how many months afterwards. I particularly like point 3 and 5. We already do point 1 (kindof), 2 and 8. However having come across this list, I will make more of an effort to try and incorporate/implement more of these tips. Many thanks. Do you find this valuable? |
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Tem |
3. RE: Staff involvement in Readers' Advisory work - how to keep them kee
May 27 2008, 10:39 AM EDT
Just wanted kick this off, but am interested in what RA exercises/games/competition other libraries are doing or have done to keep their staff keen? This is what I have done so far...Exercise 1. Have an info session on 3-4 printed RA material, explaining type of content the book covers, how to access the information and use the items to complete RA queries. After session hand out RA questions and ask staff to complete questions using only the printed RA materials discussed. This exercise worked pretty well, staff mentioned that it was a good practice to focus what they've just learnt. Haven't done this in awhile, will be doing this again. Don't forget to staggered this, to avoid clashes with the RA books, unless you have duplications. Do you find this valuable? |
