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Rachel Van Riel 3: Differentiating audiences - how to target promotions successfully (BESÖK)

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Rachel Van Riel föreläser inom BESÖK 12 mars 2013. Projektet BESÖK (Bibliotekspersonal i E-län Samverkar för Ökad Kompetens) syftar till att kompetensutveckla medarbetarna på de 13 folkbiblioteken i Östergötland, samt universitetsbiblioteket och länsbiblioteket. Projektet medfinansieras av Europeiska socialfonden. www.projektbesok.se

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Teach Toddlers Colors Numbers Preschool Race Cars & Magnet Truck

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Rachel Van Riel 4: Reader-friendly book display (BESÖK)

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Rachel Van Riel föreläser inom BESÖK 12 mars 2013. Projektet BESÖK (Bibliotekspersonal i E-län Samverkar för Ökad Kompetens) syftar till att kompetensutveckla medarbetarna på de 13 folkbiblioteken i Östergötland, samt universitetsbiblioteket och länsbiblioteket. Projektet medfinansieras av Europeiska socialfonden. www.projektbesok.se

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Rachel Van Riel 2: Reader to reader (BESÖK)

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Rachel Van Riel föreläser inom BESÖK 12 mars 2013. Projektet BESÖK (Bibliotekspersonal i E-län Samverkar för Ökad Kompetens) syftar till att kompetensutveckla medarbetarna på de 13 folkbiblioteken i Östergötland, samt universitetsbiblioteket och länsbiblioteket. Projektet medfinansieras av Europeiska socialfonden. www.projektbesok.se

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Rachel Van Riel

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Rachel Van Riel 1: Putting Readers First (BESÖK)

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Kathy East Great Books for African-American Children

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Kathleen T. Horning Reference Services for Children and Young Adults Ed

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Anitra T. Steele Crash Course in Children 's Services

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Colleen Cool Fundamentals of Children 's Services

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Michael Sullivan Bare Bones Library Services

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Carolyn W. Lima Popular Series Fiction for K

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Christian Reference for Children 's Literature

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Nancy A. Anderson Other Resources Association for Library Service

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Fantasy Adventure Sports Stories Science Fiction

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Asking Young Children Questions Collection

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Reading IS Fundamental http://www.rif.org/ Association for Library Services

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Marie L. Radford Reference and Information Services

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University of Washington Robinson Center

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American Library Association Picture Books

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Amanda Williams Reference Sources and Services for Youth

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From Caillou to the Wimpy Kid: Readers' Advisory for Children

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Tips for conducting Readers' Advisory for Children.

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Librarian in Black Blog - Sarah Houghton

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This is the third installment in the Sarah's Online Reference Warehouse series. The first two installments ( Real Estate Sites and Vegan Resources) are still available, of course.

This list is of my favorite online readers advisory tools, a subject area request I get often from my fellow library staff. This a little bit longer than some lists, because there's just too much out there that is worth looking at and I don't want to deprive anyone of any of this wonderfulness. Enjoy!
Sarah's Favorite Online Readers Advisory Tools

AllReaders.com - One of the first free, online readers advisory tools, no list of this nature would be complete without AllReaders. Search by what you're interested in - title, author, plot, setting, character, adversaries, setting, style, etc. The guided searching offers thousands of permutations and options and gets very specific (and largely user-loved) results. You have to try this to believe it.

Bettendorf Public Library's Young Adult Books in Series and Sequels - Teen series & sequels browseable by author and series title or searchable by author, series title, or book title.

Columbus Metropolitan Library's Picture Book Index - Browse picture books by subject (they get really, really detailed). Great for finding a list of books about "X" for that kid who seems to think he's read everything (oh yeah, and that kid's parents).

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature - Created and maintained by fellow-California librarian Lisa Bartle, DAWCL is searchable by 13 different fields including reader's age, historical period, setting, genre, format, and more. Resulting lists of award-winners are a great place to get young readers started.

Downer's Grove Public Library Author Read-Alikes - The author read-alike feature of the subscription database NoveList is one of its most popular features. Here's a very respectable list of some of the most popular authors for whom people request read-alikes, with a half-dozen recommendations (or more) for each author.

Fantastic Fiction - Browse for authors or series names, or search for authors or titles to get some pretty comprehensive bibliographies, cover shots, book descriptions, and more (like information on various editions). Great for those looking for quick and comprehensive book information for their favorite authors. The site also includes award information and new U.S. releases in hardback, paperback, and audio.

FictionDB.com - Half-free, half-commercial site operated by the Riviera Group. The free parts of the site offers a huge list of book lists (200,000+ titles, which you can browse by genre or search) as well as a access to series and sequels lists (only by author's last name though, which is useless in multi-author series). Still, worth a look.

FictionFinder (beta) - This prototype from OCLC lets you search or browse by genre, subject, imaginary place or setting (how cool is that?), or fictional character (equally cool), including through a tag-cloud interface with popular folksonomies. More specific is better here, as this is a huge database (immigrants returns nearly 700 hits). Each record has extensive information about reading level, genres, characters, settings, etc.

Gnooks - My students either love this or hate it. For recommendations you can try either Gnod's Suggestions (supply it with 3 authors you like, and it will start suggesting other similar authors) or the Map of Literature (supply it with 1 author you like, and it will provide a seizure-inducing ever-moving visual map of authors).

Guys Read - A wonderfully fun and interactive site from guys-reading-guru Jon Scieszka that lets you search or browse for recommendations for adults in general or "young, middle, and older" guys.

Internet Speculative Fiction Database - The center for all things science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Search by author, title, series, and more to get some serious information. Author pages include complete bibliographies (including collections they took part in), series information, links to various official and unofficial web resources, and more. The site also offers an extensive list of award winners.

IRead Wiki - This is the Iowa librarians' Readers' Advisory wiki with lists organized by audience, genre, subject, and more. This site started out really small and is now quite impressive.

Kent District Library What's Next?: Books in a Series - Just what it sounds like, this long-standing index offers adult and youth series lists in a number of different genres that you can search or browse.

Librarian's Book Revoogle - From librarian Rick Roche, this custom Google search targets book reviews on library and librarian websites. The site also includes the Librarian's Booklist Search that searches, yes, library and librarian-generated booklists.

LibraryThing - This list would not be complete without this user-generated behemoth of a site. Get "similar books" recommendations based on your own favorites. By the by, if you haven't signed up for LibraryThing's "Early Reviewers", consider it. You get free copies of advanced publications for reviewing purposes...something you might like doing anyway!

Los Angeles Public Library's Series & Sequels Index - Adult series & sequels database searchable by author, title, series title, or characters.

Mid-Continent Public Library's Juvenile Series and Sequels - Children's and teen series & sequels database with over 24,000 entries, covering birth through grade 12, and sortable by series title or subject -or- book title or author.

Monroe County Public Library's Children's Books in a Series - Children's series & sequels browseable by author's last name.

Monster Librarian - Horror fiction recommendations for kids, teens, and adults arranged by sub-genre and series.

No Flying, No Tights (and its affiliates) - The original graphic novel review site for teens, with partner sites Sidekicks (graphic novels for kids) and The Lair (graphic novels for adults & teens). Recommended graphic novel lists abound, by sub-genre.

Overbooked - A labor of love from the Collection Management Administrator at the Chesterfield County (VA) Public Library, this site offers a substantial number of high-quality annotated lists of fiction, nonfiction, and mystery books.

Stop, You're Killing Me! - Mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books chronologically listed by authors (over 2,500 discrete authors), including series. Browseable by author name, character name, genre, location or period of story, or the lead character's ethnicity or job. Oh yes, and they have a substantive list of read-alikes too. Nirvana for mystery lovers. Truly.

Storycode (beta) - Read and review books yourself, or get recommendations based on what others have reviewed and liked (similar to LibraryThing's model). Find a book you like and click on "Get Recommendations" to get a list of dozens of recommendations of similar titles, based on relevancy, including information about the readability, recommended age, and average rating.

What Should I Read Next? - Search for a book you know you like and get recommendations based on other readers' similar preferences. You have to register for an account to get the "full" list of results, though often the partial list is enough to address a user inquiry.

WhichBook.net - Slide a number of visual sliders, from happy to sad and unexpected to predictable to tell the site what you like. You can also choose factors specific to characters, plot, and setting. The resulting recommendation lists can vary from 2-200 books, depending on how specific you got! An innovative way to think about reading preferences.

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Sarah's Online Reference Warehouse: Readers Advisory

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This is the third installment in the Sarah's Online Reference Warehouse series. The first two installments (Real Estate Sites and Vegan Resources) are still available, of course. This list is of my favorite online readers advisory tools, a subject area request I get often from my fellow library staff.

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Library guides

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Library Guides: Library and Information Science Resources for Palmer Students: Journals

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Library Guides: Library and Information Science Resources for Palmer Students: Journals

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Australian and New Zealand resources for readers' advisers

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The 8 Best Reader's Advisory Websites

As librarians, we're supposed to be familiar with all of the books so that we can make recommendations, share new books and introduce our patrons to all these new and spectacular stories. The only problem with that is that there is no time to read all of these wonderful books. So we need to find other ways to be able to make recommendations without having read the books we're recommending. Once of the best ways to do this is to use various book recommendation websites where you can browse through the reviews and thoughts of all those people who have read the books. So to help you out, here's my list of the 8 best book recommendation websites, whether to help your patrons or yourself to find a new book.
GoodReads http://www.goodreads.com/
Good Reads is one of the most popular book review websites on the internet (and Amazon bought it because of its popularity), and is incredible for making book lists. You can see which books your friends are reading and what they recommend, and track the books you're reading, have read, and want to read. However, this website is completely based on user reviews and recommendations, which makes it difficult to find, for example, authors that are similar to one of your favorites unless you wade through a lot of user reviews.
Fantastic Fiction http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
Fantastic Fiction is a great website when you want to look up an author's collection of books, and it even lists the books of a series in order. You don't have to worry that you're missing a book in the series, or that you're going out of order, and the website even lists new books being released by the author. Each page even includes the books that the author would recommend as well as a section that lists other authors that visitors also looked at after looking at a specific author. It is a fantastic resource, not just for library use, but also for personal use. There are only a couple of issues with this site: first, with so many sections per page, the organization can get a bit confusing, and secondly, the site focuses on the popular authors, so unless you already know the name of that lesser know but wonderful author, you're not likely to get introduced to them on this website.
Literature Map http://www.literature-map.com/
Literature Map is not only helpful, but it is a lot of fun to play with. The user types in an author's name and the website generates a web of other authors that have similar writing styles and genres. The closer the author's name is to another, the more alike the authors are. This can be a great tool to use when you have patrons asking for help in finding a new author to follow, or to help find similar books for someone to try. Unfortunately, the site only recommends authors and not books, so even though the writing may be similar, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be similar in the way you want.
What Should I Read Next? http://whatshouldireadnext.com/
What Should I Read Next analyzes the favorites list of all their members in order to recommend the best next read for any book. You can either just get a book recommendation for free by going to their main page and choosing a book title, and it will provide you a list of titles that others who have favorite it have also read. Or, you can join for free and build your own list of favorites to add to their extensive database. The analysis based on reader's lists is surprisingly good, but book recommendations is pretty much all this website offers.
Your Next Read (USA) http://www.yournextread.com/us/
Your Next Read provides book recommendations in two ways, and you can sign up and crate you own "Map" of books. To find book recommendations, you can either browse reading lists, or you can type in a title, and a web of 8 other books will appear (as well as Amazon reviews about the book you searched for). You can then click on another book in the web and 8 more books will show up based on the book you just clicked. You can also offer up recommendations of your own. Unfortunately, if you're looking at a specific author or at a book in a big series, like Redwall, you run the risk of getting stuck in a book loop, where no matter what you click on, you keep seeing that same books over and over again.
Whichbook http://www.openingthebook.com/whichbook/
Which Book is another fun site to play with as it helps you pick a book based on your mood, which you can do for free or sign up and create saved lists. The site provides a list of sliders, and you can choose 4 of the sliders to indicate your mood (are you looking for something more Happy or Sad, Expected or Unpredictable, Easy or Demanding, No Sex or Lots of Sex, etc...). Once you've indicated your tastes, it will provide you with a list that fits your mood (or you can explore their mood book lists). But if that way doesn't work for you, you can create book lists based on character, plot type and setting. This site is great to help you find new books that you may not have thought you would like, but if you absolutely love a specific author, you're going to have to think about why you love that author in order to find similar books.
Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com/
Shelfari is a social cataloging website for books, which was acquired by Amazon in 2008. Users build virtual bookshelves of the titles they own or have read, and can rate, review, tag and discuss their books. You can also create groups that other members may join, create discussions and talk about books, or even other topics. Recommendations can be sent to friends, but the website does not produce its own reader's advisory recommendations, it depends on its users to recommend for others. This website requires that you become a member in order to be able to do anything on their site, but it does create a community as well as a personal library for individuals that you can sort and organize based on tags and metadata, and you can even have different shelves for thing s like already read, currently reading, planning to read, wish list, currently owned and favorites. The main issue with this website is that it does require so much time and effort, although if you put in all of that time, you could end up with something really useful.
Library Thing https://www.librarything.com/
Library Thing is a social cataloging service so that you can store and access your personal library's metadata (the metadata is imported from other libraries and Amazon stores). You can share and connect with others who share your tastes and the site will even recommend books based on your library. While this is a very in-depth system with lots of great features, it does require a lot of time and commitment.

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As librarians, we're supposed to be familiar with all of the books so that we can make recommendations, share new books and introduce our patrons to all these new and spectacular stories. The only problem with that is that there is no time to read all of these wonderful books.