As libraries evolve and adapt to changing circumstances, it is crucial to our continued community relevance that we retain and serve our core constituency of readers. Reader's advisory specialists from The Seattle Public Library will expand on the basic premises and practices of reader’s advisory, sharing how to apply these practices across new platforms and technologies, enlist social media and catalogs to serve readers, and use form-based and virtual reader's advisory. Learn expert techniques for using the latest generation of advisory resources and other ways to better serve readers in libraries large and small.

Presented by David Wright and Andrea Gough, readers advisory librarians with the Seattle Public Library’s Reader Services Department

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Related Resources and Links

• Read webinar recap
• Readers Advisory on WebJunction
• Readers' advisory service in the public library, Joyce Saricks
• Improving the Model for Interactive Readers' Advisory Service, Neil Hollands
• Examples of Forms-based Readers’ Advisory
  • The Seattle Public Library, Your Next 5 Books
    
  • Multnomah County Library – Multnomah County, Oregon
• SPL on Facebook and Twitter
• Shelf Talk, SPL's blog
  
• Seattle Times Books section
• SPL Videos on YouTube
• Free Collaborative and Social Media sites
  • Goodreads
  • Scottsdale Public Library on Goodreads
  • Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library on Goodreads
  • Riffle
  • Greg Fisher, The Heights Libraries Ohio on Riffle
    
• Shared in Chat
  • Ask a Book Buyer - Powell's Books
    
  • Literature Map
  • Brian Kenney, How to Make a Make-It-Happen Library in Publishers Weekly