Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library - Softcover

Saricks, Joyce G; Brown, Nancy

 
9780838907115: Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library

Synopsis

This guide to providing a readers' advisory service addresses every aspect, from promoting the service to designing reading plans. It includes an updated popular fiction list, information on genre studies, and the in-print and electronic tools available to help advise readers on fiction.

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Review

"When a reader asks you for a 'good book, ' are you at a loss for words or titles? Or can you recommend a genre that you personally dislike or don't read? Now you can do these things and more with this expanded and updated work."

About the Author

Joyce G. Saricks has worked as coordinator of the Literature and Audio Services Department at the Downers Grove Public Library since 1983. In addition to co-authoring Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library (ALA Editions), she has published several articles on readers' advisory and co-created the Adult Reading Round Table, an organization of more than 200 Chicago-area readers' advisors. In 1989, Saricks won the Public Library Association's Allie Beth Martin Award, and in 2000 was named Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America. She has presented more than seventy workshops on readers' advisory for public libraries and library systems around the country. Saricks earned her master's degree in library science from the University of Chicago.

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9780838908976: Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library

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ISBN 10:  0838908977 ISBN 13:  9780838908976
Publisher: ALA Editions, 2005
Softcover