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I Wrote a Chapter for The Readers’ Advisory Handbook!

May 3, 2010

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,

Using WordPress for Bibliographies or Readers Advisory Sites

September 8, 2008

By Bobbi Newman

Using WordPress for Bibliographies or Readers Advisory Sites

Remember how last month I blogged about using a wiki for the library’s Readers Advisory Site? It looked like this. Well we ran into some issues, the IT department was having some problems with the input form and the other Librarians didn’t like it (I’m not gonna list their complaints), so I started rethinking it. Since I was going to be building a new one from scratch I knew I wanted patrons to be able to print out the lists as well as be able to use it to see the record in the catalog. I also wanted something other staff were comfortable and familiar with. I knew many of the staff set up a blog during our Library Learning 2.0 program. I’m very familiar with blogging & WordPress, and I knew I could tweak the pages and post to make it function the way I wanted. The library already uses WP for it’s main blog so it was a simple matter to have another blog set up. I got to work and it worked out even better than I’d hoped! See it here, read on for the how I made it happen. First I created 7 Pages, including

Using a wiki for Reader’s Advisory

July 22, 2008

By Bobbi Newman

One of the first things we started when I came to MRRL was create online Reader’s Advisory lists for patrons. We’ve used a couple of different services for this in the last 3 years, but they cost money and were controlled by outside vendors. Earlier this year I was looking for funding to be able to add some new services and it occurred to me that the Library could save money by using a wiki to provide What to Read Next list. I got the go ahead from the director, we installed Mediawiki and I’ve been busy coding. So I’m pleased to announce the new Reader’s Advisory wiki. It is pretty “bare bones” looking, as wikis are hard to customize, but our logo is there and it has a nice clean look that matches our blog. It includes links to lists created internally, pdfs, and lists other places on the web. I’m still working on it and in the spirit of 2.0 it will always be changing. Remember wikis are the platform for the content your patrons are looking for. They don’t care how it gets delivered as long as they get it. Using a wiki just make your life easier and seamless integration makes your patrons life easier.

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