The best advice for readers’ advisers
Contact: Jill Davis
ALA Editions
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NEWS
For Immediate Release
March 23, 2010
CHICAGO –
ALA Editions, the publishing imprint of the American Library Association, announces the release of “
The Readers’ Advisory Handbook,” edited by Jessica E. Moyer & Kaite Mediatore Stover. Covering everything from getting to know a library’s materials to marketing and promoting RA, this practical handbook will help librarians and administrators expand services immediately without adding costs or training time.
Readers' advisory long ago sprinted past merely suggesting books to patrons; it now encompasses many different formats and means of communication--working with patrons of all types and ages, in and outside the library. To help harried librarians handle increased demand, experts Moyer and Mediatore Stover assembled a group of specialists who have created a one-stop resource for all kinds of readers' advisory issues, offering a trove of solid guidance that includes
- How to advise patrons on all kinds of books and media, from fiction and nonfiction to audiobooks, graphic novels and reference materials
- How to provide services to senior citizens, teens, incarcerated readers and others
- How to handle author visits and book groups
- How to enhance storytelling, including for adults
Covering everything from getting to know a library’s materials to marketing and promoting RA, this practical handbook will help librarians and administrators expand services immediately without adding costs or training time.
Moyer has published articles in
Reference and User Services Quarterly,
New Library World, and the
Libraries Unlimited Readers’ Advisor Newsletter and she is the author of the ALA Editions book “
Research-Based Readers’ Advisory.” Moyer is a member of the editorial boards of
Reference and User Services Quarterly and
Reference Books Bulletin and is chair of the 2010 RUSA Awards committee. She reviews fiction, audiobooks, reference books and professional reading for
Booklist and fiction for
Library Journal.
Mediatore Stover is head of readers’ services for the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library. She writes the “She Reads” column and is an audiobook reviewer for
Booklist, a contributing writer for NoveList and has contributed articles to
Reference and User Services Quarterly. In 2003 she was named one of
Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers.
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