BANG FOR YOUR BUCKDOWNERS GROVE

LIBRARY STYLE

1. THE WAY OF THE FUTURE: CUSTOMIZED READERS’

ADVISORY

EXHIBIT A:I’M IN THE MOOD TO READ

EXHIBIT B:BOOK A READERS’ ADVISOR

2. WHAT WE’RE READING

3. FACEBOOK & TWITTER

THE OPTIONS ARE ENDLESS

Link back to your library’s website as much as possible

- Feature staff booklists from website

Trending -i.e. on Fridays we poll patrons about what they are reading over the weekend (patrons love this!)

Promote Book Discussions Announce the Big Read book selection, Adult Summer Reading Club themes, etc.

Any sort of book, movie, or music related information you think patrons would find interesting will work

Examples of things you can post:-Award Winners such as the Orange, Booker or Pulitzer-YALSA Book Awards and Lists-“Best of” lists -Book trailers (also a lot of fun)-Author interviews from The Daily Show or The Colbert Report

Adding the hash tag, #fb, to a tweet also posts to Facebook

Link to staff

booklist

Link to staff

booklist

Link to “I’m in

the Mood to Read”

Link to “I’m in

the Mood to Read”

Intriguing

article

Intriguing

article

FACILITATE A BOOK DISCUSSION

4. GOODREADS, LIBRARYTHING & SHELFARI

Your library could create an account, add books staff are reading, and even “recommend this title” to patrons who are friends with the library.

This can be linked to your Facebook profile as well.

FUTURE IDEA

5. READERS’ ADVISORY ORGANIZATIONS

ARRT, LACONI, ETC.

http://www.arrtreads.org/

http://www.laconi.org/

6. GENRE STUDIES

Take part in a departmental genre study

Conduct an individual genre study

Read and discuss a chapter from a book about readers’ services:

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction

by Joyce Saricks

The Readers' Advisory HandbookJessica E. Moyer, Katie

Mediatore Stover and Erin Downey Howerton

I just loved this

book!

7. BOOKLISTS & BOOKMARKS

8. RA BLOGS & WEBSITES

A FEW I LIKE….

RA FOR All

BLOGGING FOR A GOOD BOOK

THE END

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