September 2006

Readers' Advisor News

An e-newsletter published quarterly by Libraries Unlimited

Featured Article

Readers Advisory Behind Bars by Erica MacCreaigh

People often ask corrections librarians what it's like to work with prisoners. "Prisoners read???" is the most common response I hear when I tell people I've worked in jail, quickly followed by, "What exactly DO they read?" ...
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Scholarship and Research

Questioning Our Assumptions about Young People as Readers by Paulette Rothbauer

author photo... Very often when I tell people that I am working on a study of rural teens and reading, I am met with a response like, "oh that must be hard: teens don't read". ...
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Library Perspective

Audiobooks, Libraries and iPods: Comments and a Call to Action by Jessica Moyer

... And if [teens] can't use their iPod at the library, they'll do just like I do and not bother to return to the library. Instead they'll buy subscriptions to Audible.com ...
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Industry Perspective

Adventures at the World Science Fiction Convention by Diana Tixier Herald, Susan Fichtelberg and Bonnie Kunzel

Three librarians, authors, and SF/fantasy fans report on this year's Worldcon.
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About the Reader's Advisors News

Readers' Advisor News is an electronic newsletter intended to

  • inform Readers' Advisors and RA educators of events, trends, issues, and products pertinent to successfully teaching and practicing readers' advisory.
  • to provide a forum for formalized dialogue on issues affecting professional readers' advisory.
  • to place Readers' Advisory within a broad historical and industry context.
  • to promote effective readers' advisory in libraries, in LIS education and beyond.

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