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NEW! The Adult Reading Round Table invites you to their most terrifying event of the year...
 

Horror Readers Advisory: How to Help Your
Scariest Patrons

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Downers Grove Public Library  More


Literary Fiction Book Discussion Summer Discussion: Digging to America by Anne Tyler  

July 28th at 1:30
Niles Public Library
6960 Oakton Street, Niles

R.S.V.P. to Greta Ulrich at gulrich@nileslibrary.org


Everything Audiobook  
Everything Audiobook, our fall 2009 program, was presented by Amy Peterson and Susan Gibberman from the Schaumburg Township District Library.  In addition to discussing audiobook publishing trends, Amy and Susan asked participants to share their favorite narrators and audiobook titles. 
The results are in!

Can't get enough audiobooks, here are even more titles sure to give you and your patrons  hours of listening pleasure. 

Also,
Check out our annotated booklist of notable audiobooks


ARRTWorks
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The latest newsletter, now in an exciting new format.

A peek at our Summer 2010 issue:

 

Readers, Writers, Books and Blog

In their “Readers, Writers, Books and Blogs” ARRT Winter 2010 program, Rebecca Vnuk and Karen Kleckner educated and entertained us with their tag-team style introduction to a slew of their favorite blogs, including AV sites that library staff can use to conduct viewers' and listeners' advisory ...

 

Going VIRAL: Becoming a Virtual Interactive Readers' Advisory Librarian

The enthusiasm was (ahem) infectious at the Spring 2010 ARRT program, Going VIRAL, where a panel of librarians from Skokie PL shared their experiences with creating virtual RA tools through their library's website and social media hubs ...

 

What is the ARRT Steering Committee Reading?

Books that ARRT Steering Committee members currently are raving about:

 

Major Pettigrew's Last  Stand by Helen Simonson (2010)
Major Pettigrew is the perfect English gentleman...definitely a member of the stiff upper lip school. He finds out just how much his world has changed when his brother dies unexpectedly, his son brings home an American girlfriend, and he falls in love with a Pakistani widow ...

 
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