RA for Librarians
A place to test and share ideas, projects, notes, etc. Designed for librarians who provide Readers Advisory services.RA Links
Page modified: June 20, 2008
Databases - subscriptions required
Libraries Unlimited: Readers Advisor Online - about
Novelist - how to use modules
What Do I Read Next - navigation guide
Additional Key Resources
Overbooked RA | RA Current Awareness
Bestseller Lists:
- Amazon Movers & Shakers
- Barnes & Noble
- Booksense Bestsellers
- Christian Booksellers
- Essence
- L.A. Times
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- S.F. Chronicle
- USA Today
Additional Resources :
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Arts Journal
- Bookbrowser Reading Lists
- Booksense Picks
- NPR Books
- Yahoo Book /PublishingNews
RA Discussion Lists
Reading Groups
- BookBrowse Reading Guides
- Book Group List
- Reading Group Choices
- Reading Group Guides
- Overbooked Best Bets for Book Groups
Also, check publisher sites for book group discussion guides
Publishers
- Bloomsbury
- HarperCollins
- Hatchett
- Holtzbrinck
- Penguin
- Publishers Group West
- Random House
- Simon & Schuster
- Small Press Distribution
- Soho Press
- Soft Skull
Blogs (a sampling)
- Bloglines - Create a personal Bloglines page loaded with the freshest news about the things you love.
- Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - Crime Fiction and more
- Emdashes - The New Yorker, between the lines
- Evil Editor
- Fimoculous - Rex Sorgatz' website, feeding on internet culture, includes Best of 2005 lists
- Fresh Eyes
- Holt Uncensored - is a semi-monthly email column and website about books and the book industry written by Pat Holt, former Book Review Editor and Critic for The San Francisco Chronicle.
- Literary Saloon
- Maud Newton
- MobyLives - news and commentary about books & writers
- Miss Snark - In which Miss Snark vents her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushes them to sand beneath her T. Rexual heels of stiletto snark.
- Publishing Insider - Carl Lennartz
- Words Without Borders
- The Written Nerd
Newsletters, RSS Feeds, etc.
Publishing World & Book Industry
Review Sources
Vendors
- Baker & Taylor: Fast Facts, Booking Ahead
- Ingram: RA quarterly publication, Hot 100 Lists - email from IPage and forward to staff/customers, book discussion newsletter
- BWI: E News
Other
- NPR - Book Notes
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. Designed for librarians who provide RA services.
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
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.
The ALA/RUSA/CODES RA wiki has been set up by Julie Elliott.
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