I’m excited to announce that The Readers’ Advisory Handbook is now out!

Over a year ago my friend, and awesome librarian, Kaite Mediatore Stover asked if I would be interested in writing a chapter for her readers’ advisory book.  She wanted me to address the online aspects of RA.  I’m more of a blogger than an article or book writer but Kaite convinced me it was worth it.

I am honored and humbled to be included with the contributors to this book.  Check it out!

Part I Getting to Know Your Materials
Chapter 1 How to Read a Book in Ten Minutes, Jessica E. Moyer
Chapter 2 Nonfiction Speed Dating, Sarah Statz Cords
Chapter 3 How to Listen to a Book in Thirty Minutes, Kaite Mediatore Stover
Chapter 4 How to Read a Graphic Novel in Five Minutes, Erin Downey Howerton
Chapter 5 Keeping Up: Genre Studies as Continuing Education, Lucy M. Lockley

Part II Reviewing and Evaluating Materials
Chapter 6 Reviews and Annotations for Fiction and Nonfiction, Lynne Welch
Chapter 7 Reviewing Audiobooks, Sue-Ellen Beauregard
Chapter 8 How to Review Graphic Novels and Manga, Jessica Zellers
Chapter 9 Reviewing and Evaluating Reference Materials, Jessica E. Moyer

Part III Marketing, Promoting, and Sharing Materials
Chapter 10 Passive Readers’ Advisory: Bookmarks, Booklists, and Displays, Lissa Staley
Chapter 11 Creating Themed Booklists, Lynne Welch
Chapter 12 Read-Alikes, Lynne Welch
Chapter 13 Book Group Kits, Lissa Staley
Chapter 14 Taking Readers’ Advisory Online, Bobbi Newman

Part IV Programming
Chapter 15 Book Groups, Kay Sodowsky
Chapter 16 How to Host Author Events, Paul Smith
Chapter 17 Adult Storytime, David Wright

Part V Expanding Readers’ Advisory Services
Chapter 18 Readers’ Advisory by Proxy for Teens, Heather Booth
Chapter 19 Readers’ Advisory for Older Adults, Alicia Ahlvers
Chapter 20 Readers’ Advisory for Incarcerated Populations, Kate Pickett and CJ Sullivan
Chapter 21 Suggesting Adult Books to Teen Readers, Jessica E. Moyer
Chapter 22 Suggesting Teen Books to Adult Readers, Heather BoothSimilar Posts:

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CC image used courtesy of Leo Reynolds on flickr

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/5/2010 thru 2/11/2010

1. follow the UK Transliteracy conference here – the UK conference on Transliteracy was on Tuesday, if you missed coverage has been archived on the site.
2. Evolution of the Book – cool graph of the evolution of books
3. The State of the Internet- another cool graphic from Stephen
4. 20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter from Forbes – I don’t know about you, but I can always use more inspirational women in my life.
5. LISnew is holding its first ever essay contest. yes there are prizes! go write your submission now! or read the entries.
6. ALA |Library Snapshot Day: A Day in the Life of Your Library: April 2010 – for those of you who enjoy the Library Day in the Life Project here is something similar from ALA, photograph a single day at your library to showcase what happens in the entire library in a single day
7. “I predict that Apple will sell a gazillion. & it won’t be to ppl who have even heard of multi-tasking” and article from Wired with a nice quip to remind us techies that we aren’t the target audience of the iPad.
8. 5 Tips for Trainers to Prevent TechFail – Technology failure during training (or presentations) is a nightmare here are 5 great times from Maurice Coleman in a post on ALA Learning.
9. From OCLC’s Newletter: The global scope of library activity – great summary with numbers
10. NYTimes: Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight – we are going to see a lot of changes in the ebook industry over the next year, pricing is just one.

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A vook blends the text of a book with video into one story.  I’m fascinated by this new this new multimedia approach to books.  I have no idea if it will be successful, I can’t really see the appeal for fiction, but for something like a fitness or other how-to books I can see having a video as an advantage for demonstration.  Think of all the how-to videos on YouTube. You get the advantages of text and video in one.

Part of my fascination is due to the great example of transliteracy this provides. It is providing information through multiple media formats. We often see text in videos or on images.  We are used to seeing videos embedded on websites and blogs. This does seem like the next logical step. But I wonder if it will really take off, maybe for a small market

I’d like to see this affect ereaders, they can display text and images, and we are all waiting for color, why not video too?

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I’m more excited about the Nook than I have been about any other ebook reader. This might be the one that finally gets me to buy one. Why?

8 Reasons You Can Finally Love Ebook Readers (Thanks to Nook) from Gizmodo

1. It’s cost-effective even with Wi-Fi, native PDF support, an SD slot and that crazy second screen makes it seem out of the Kindle’s league.
2. Lending and Sharing – 2 week loans to you can lend to tons of different devices: Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile (soon).
3. Free in-store reading - take the Nook to any of Barnes & Noble’s stores and read one ebook, for free, each time—the same way you might wander into the store, pick up a book and read it for an hour or two. (I do this!)
4. Head-turning looks
5. Android – two things to be excited about when it comes to Android. First is the legit apps, which B&N seems open to. Second the more illicit possibilities: The Nook both runs Android (which we already know is easily and enthusiastically modified) and has a microUSB jack, which should make for easy hacking
6. The second screen - a keyboard and Cover-Flow-esque browsing in color without the awkwardness and lethargy of e-ink, allows for multitasking. You’ll be able to read a book and control your music at the same time, and because the music browser will be on the LCD screen, it won’t look like e-inked crap.
7. Battery Life – 10-days and it’s replaceable!
8. Both 3G and Wi-Fi

From the New York Times Live Blog: Barnes & Noble Unveils E-Reader

The digital books in Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore are available in either epub or Adobe Pdf format. Customers who want to buy books in those formats from other digital bookstores may do so and transfer them onto the Nook, but those who want to buy e-books directly from the device will be connected to Barnes & Noble’s own bookstore.

From the Wall Street Journal Live From the Nook Launch (Don’t Call It a Kindle)

Digits commenter provides useful info: Derek writes, “Just bought 2 online – Per invoice ‘Expected Ship Date: November 30, 2009′.”

I have just one question – Will they play ball with libraries?

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This is an interesting videos from Editis, a French publisher on the future of the book. Its a bit long, but worth a watch. Now I don’t speak any French but here is what I *think* I saw happening

• scanning barcodes of book at a traditional bookstore to purchase them on the ebook reader
• touchscreen
• interactive
• color
• write on the books with a stylus
• multimedia content – the guide books
• sharing copies from one ereader to the next
• email
• magazines
• blogs
• books
• music

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I love the idea of an ebook reader, but I have problems with Amazon’s Kindle, foremost being price and inability to load my own content on without sending it through Amazon. I’ve been playing with the Sony Reader the last week or so but I don’t love it either. Since I want to love ebook readers I’m on the look out for anything that might improve them. The Cooler is an interesting venture in the market.  It’s sleeker and well, prettier, it comes in 8 colours including ruby red, vivid violet and hot pink, you can view jpg, pdf, txt, and mp3 files right to it yourself.  Its not without its problems, only one navigation buttons and books in the cooler store are more expensive than Amazon Kindle Books, although the selection seemed good.  Overall its compares to Sony’s version than Amazon’s.

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My library has a leadership program and we were asked to recommend

• books,
• journals
• articles
• blogs
• blogposts
• podcasts
• whatever

with an annotation preferably, on any topic relevant to leadership, management, customers service or other topic we think would be helpful to participants.  I went through my favorites of the last couple of years and came up with these:

• Predictably Irrational, The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
• The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
• The Myth of Multitasking: How

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