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Librarians and Publishers Unite! Common Problems, Uncommon Solutions Responses from group:
Patron is given the incorrect answer to a RA question. What should you do?
How do you break someone out of a “reading rut”? Should a librarian attempt this?
How does one indicate the availability of Readers’ Advisory services without scaring patrons away?
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Have You Listened to a Good Book Lately?
Rebecca Vnuk, the current ARRT Steering
Committee Chair, has written 2 Reader’s Advisory titles for Libraries
Unlimited/Greenwood Press: Read On…Women’s
Fiction and Women’s Fiction
Authors: a Research Guide. Rebecca writes reviews and articles for
Library Journal and was named Fiction Reviewer of the Year in 2008. Rebecca
created a blog on women’s fiction at
http://womensfic.blogspot.com. She also is co-creator of a new blog at
http://www.shelfrenewal.com (see above article). Her recent article on
women’s fiction for Readers’ Advisor News (Libraries Unlimited e-newsletter)
can be found at
http://lu.com/ranews/sep2009/vnuk.cfm. Rebecca will be presenting at the
upcoming PLA Conference in Portland, Oregon in March, 2010.
A very recent development with Karen and Rebecca’s Shelf Renewal blog is that is was bought by Library Journal!! Congratulations, ladies. It can be found at www.libraryjournal.com/shelfrenewal? But, you can still check in on Rebecca and Karen at www.shelfrenewal.com to see what they are doing in libraryland. Annabelle Mortensen wrote an article for the current issue of Mystery Scene Magazine (Fall 2009) on Rex Stout entitled "The Genius of West 34th Street: 75 Years of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe." Becky Spratford created a blog called RA for All http://www.raforall.blogspot.com Becky was accepted into the Horror Writers Association. Becky works with Joyce Saricks on a blog at http://www.ra763.wordpress.com/ together with their Dominican University MLS students. Ted Balcom contributes to a Booklist blog called Book Group Buzz. It can be found at www.booklistonline.com and then clicking on the Book Group Buzz icon. It is one of several reading-related blogs available on the Booklist web site. You can also find Joyce Saricks' column called “At Leisure” on this site. Jo Bonnell and Linda Knorr with the Readers’ Services staff at Des Plaines Library write a blog called “Positively Elllinwood Street”, a blog for readers, watchers and listeners. It can be found at http://positivelyestreet.blogspot.com/ Debbie Walsh provides instruction and guidance to a group of Massachusetts librarians on how we do genre study in Illinois. She encourages them to consider setting up genre study projects in their home libraries, or planning and to implement larger genre studies with neighboring libraries. This is done through a grant awarded to the Massachusetts librarians from the Massachusetts Library Governors (the MA version of the State Library). Debbie also will be teaching the College of DuPage LTA Readers' Advisory course in the spring of 2010.
Merle Jacob wrote an article on
Mysteries with a Foreign Accent for NoveList. She has also written a chapter
about the Reader Responsive Mystery Collection in an upcoming Greenwood Press
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ARRTWorks
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Upcoming Adult
Reading Round Table Programs
Saving Our Stories: A Readers’ Advisory Post
Conference
Quarterly Literary Fiction Book Discussion Nonfiction Leisure
Reading Survey Contact Mary Constance Back for further assistance or questions at 847-259-6050 x136 or mary.back@rmlib.org. And, as always, thank you for your continued participation! |
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