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Support Staff Interest Group Meeting
August 8th
Picture Book Read-In--13th Annual Event
Support Staff Interest Group Meeting
Picture Book Read-In--13th Annual Event
Discussion of the LASSIE Name - Should we include something about Reader's Advisory in the title?
Discussion of meetings and program ideas
Hold a workshop to encourage interest?
Program Ideas and Meeting Ideas
Do a Reader's Advisory workshop on basic R.A. - How to do Reader's Advisory (fiction) in April
Comparing Databases
What Do I Read Next?
Novelist?
User Friendly Databases?
What Do I Read Next?
Hit or Miss to find Read Alike lists
Fiction, Age Range, Genre, Time Period information, etc.
Great selling point, but not included in all reviews
Novelist
Getting any mention of an author or title - demonstration - put in compared to X in Review field and not X in author field
Rollercoaster Suspense - about rollercoasters and also hits about appeal factors
Hanky - 3-hanky read and 5-hanky read
Find by Plot?
Very dependent on plot
Character names - golden!
Works with kids titles
Choose your age group
Popularity Ranking
Does anyone know how they determine popularity ranking?
For Readers
What are folks reading now - ideas for current suggestions from Novelist reviewers
Read-alikes
Nevada Barr
PLCH Database
3000+ reviews
Search by subject
http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/recommendations.html
Turning the Page - Books Blog - http://www2.cincinnatilibrary.org/blog/
Choose your color...
Welcome Chaos
Kate Atkinson - comments
About - choose your blog author and read all the reviews that author has written!
Staff can see how many hits each entry has had...
Blogs in libraries
Few comments from patrons
Lack of communication - blogs can fix it?
Started with staff blogs
Moved to public blogs
Collection updates - new items
Discussion of centralized collection development
Favorites list
Fiction_L
Able to send someone a list of titles that they would like based on preferences...
Webrary.org - archived booklists
Great lists
News Booklist
Good Sites for Read-alikes
Google-ing Read-alikes
Pros and cons
lists EVERYONE!
Genre searching
http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
Have books by grade level
Very extensive list!
What's Next http://www.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp
Up-to-date - usually pretty good
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/
Great way to keep track of juvenile series
Books to Movies and back...
Just a good book...
http://www.overbooked.org/ - books that received 3-4 stars!
Genreflecting
Does anyone use it anymore?
Useful?
Keeping R.A. websites updated?
Who is in charge?
Monthly updates?
Subject experts?
Branch Managers?
Do you have a lot of requests for Reader's Advisory?
Display for Read-alikes?
Know what they're looking for, asking friends, etc.
Relying on staff?
Reader's Advisory is under-publicized at libraries!
How to change that?
Promoting?
R.A. may be the next level for libraries - we're no longer the only avenue for information, but we can EVALUATE that information...
How can we “sell†R.A. to our administration?
How do we publicize this service to patrons?
Staffing Issues
We'd like to do a lot, but where do we start?
Featured websites
Feature an R.A. website?
Feature a movie and book website?
Display ideas...
Shelf pockets with bookmarks - R.A. information in the public spaces
Read-alikes on shelves
Databases and online resources on shelves
Brochures on shelves with descriptions
Your Online Library...
Chilton's in the car section
Antiques
Homework Help
Online Journal titles are slowly being incorporated into catalogs...
Odd results
What questions do you get the most?
Read-alikes?
Mysteries?
Computer questions?
Homework reading assignments?
Sci-Fi?
Homebound service - audiobooks for my neighbor/parent/friend?
Give them your card and get the homebound person to call us and we'll pull books for you.
Outreach - online profile of patrons?
Questions to create your profile
Patrons like to be asked!
Whichbook? http://www.whichbook.net/
Choose your mood and what you like and Whichbook will give you titles!
Patron can mark if they would like the library to keep their reading history - great for homebound R.A.
How does your Reference Desk and R.A. staff work?
Everything that is not Circulation related goes to the Reference desk, and they do both Reference and R.A.
Usually staff 2 at the Reference desk to do everything and have a buzzer that sounds in the back if they need help
All staff is cross-trained (theoretically)
One desk - the everything desk?
Call for help?
Circ. And a Ref. Desk? Specialize questions?
Quiet spots?
Do you lose services when our desks are moved to a quieter spot?
Chance for a conversation in the busier spots?
Our Next Meeting...
Jan. 23, 2007 - North Central Branch Library
9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.
Music Advisory Training
Go to Wiliamsburg Regional Library and fill out the R.A. profile - bring your list to the next meeting!
Compare notes!
Ideas for smaller systems
Ideas for larger systems
Pick a resources and demonstration
January 23, 2007 - Topic: Music Advisory Training and Discussion
April 17, 2007 - Topic: Basic Reader's Advisory Training and Discussion
July 24, 2007 - Topic TBA - Summer Reading Theme? Kid and teen Reader's Advisory-to help your non-youth staff (or new youth staff) service the youth patrons? Booktalks? What are the biggest titles? If you've never done children's advisory and someone comes up to you, what do you do?