Research-Based Readers' Advisory

by Jessica E. Moyer

Overview

Written by RA expert Jessica Moyer with contributions from leading RA luminaries, Research-Based Readers' Advisory approaches research from two vantage points: the Research Review provides an expert overview of new research, and the Librarian's View, written by RA experts, discusses practical issues. Written in straightforward terms, this one-stop guidebook: provides an easily accessible resource for reviewing everyday interactions with readers; includes real-world examples of RA changes based on the results of research; gives pointers for further research through reference lists at the end of each chapter; and, offers extensive coverage on a wide range of topics, including bookgroups and audiovisual readers' advisory, as well as collection development and management. Librarians and staff doing readers' advisory and LIS students can become better acquainted with readers' advisory research using the guidance offered here. This book also serves as useful background for readers' advisory training programs and continuing education in library systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838909591
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	03/17/2008
Series:	ALA Readers' Advisory Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Information Science. Currently she is a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities in the Literacy Education program. She 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 Research-Based Readers’ Advisory (American Library Association, 2008). An active member of ALA, Moyer is currently a member of the editorial boards for Reference and User Services Quarterly and Booklist’s 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.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Readers' Advisory Services: The State of the Practice Joyce Saricks Barry Trott 1

2 Adult Readers 12

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View Jane Jorgenson

3 Nonfiction Readers and Nonfiction Advisory 37

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View Sarah Statz Cords

4 Audiovisual Advisory 56

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View Kaite Mediatore Stover

5 Children and Young Adult Readers and Readers' Advisory 77

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Youth Services Librarian's View Amanda Blau

Young Adult Librarian's View Heather Booth

6 Book Groups 111

Research Review Joan Bessman Taylor

Librarian's View Andrew Smith

7 Romance and Genre Readers 134

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View Katie Dunneback

8 Readers' Advisory Interview 154

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View David Wright

9 Tools for Readers' Advisors 172

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View Mary Wilkes Towner

10 Cataloging, Classification, and Browsing 198

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View Nanette Wargo Donohue

11 Collection Development and Collection Management 219

Research Review Jessica E. Moyer

Librarian's View Cynthia Orr

12 The Future of Readers' Advisory Neil Hollands Jessica E. Moyer 242

Index 261