Who: Julie Elliott, Megan McArdle, Jessica Moyer, Jackie Sasaki, Andrew Smith, Sharron Smith, Kaite Stover, Ann Theis, Barry Trott, Rebecca Vnuk, Patrick Wall, David Wright, Neal Wyatt...
What: A place to test and share ideas, projects, notes, etc For librarians who provide RA services. Needs or wants? Advise us!
Why: We live for RA.
When: In progress . . .
Website contact: Ann C. Theis, Collection Management Administrator, Chesterfield County Public Library
email: ann@overbooked.com or ra@readersadvisory.org
June 2008
Reading Group Therapy: How to Repair, Revamp and Revitalize Your Book Group: Sunday, June 29th, 2008, from 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Disneyland Hotel, North BR
Handouts from the program include: Reading Group Rx, Sure Bets and more.
January 2008
Calling all book group people!
We know you like to talk about books, but we want you to talk to us about your book group. Please help us get a picture of book groups across the country by participating in a short informal survey from the Readers' Advisory Committee of the American Library Association.
To visit the survey, click on this link
Preliminary data will be presented at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA at the program Reading Group Therapy: How to Repair, Revamp and Revitalize Your Book Group being held Sunday, June 29th, 2008, from 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
The program will feature Nancy Pearl (www.nancypearl.com) who will present a program on book group therapy that will include how to make choice selections that generate interesting discussions; how to deal with domineering personalities; and the many roadblocks to peak participation. Nancy will also discuss building a circulating book group collection (modeling on Seattle Public Library), a core list of titles and readers' advisory for book groups.
The ALA/RUSA/CODES RA wiki has been set up by Julie Elliott. The handouts from the Off the Chain Program are available including: humor, horror and mysteries.
Got a hot topic? Let us know!