Collection Building: Volume 12 Issue 3/4

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Our Kind of Service, Readers' Advisory Is

Gary O. Rolstad

As librarians contemplate the growing complexity of their institutions and the demands on their time, they often wish they could get back to books and reading, and have the chance…

Considerations of Theoretical Bases for Readers' Advisory Services

Kathleen de la Peña McCook

Advising readers has received renewed attention in public libraries, library associations, and programs of library and information science. Writing of their belief in readers'…

Laying a Firm Foundation: Administrative Support for Readers' Advisory Services

Sharon L. Baker

The children's room in my hometown library in Marion, Ohio, was a bright, comforting site, with low shelves of colorful books on every imaginable topic and a desk where kids…

Inspiration and Appreciation: Notes on the Practice of Readers' Advisory

Nancy Pearl

In 1955 Frances Whitehead was the children's librarian at the Parkman Branch Library in Detroit, Michigan. I had already read all the horse and dog books I could find in the…

Reconstructing the Reader: Educating Readers' Advisors

Duncan Smith

In a recent RQ column, Sharon L. Baker reviewed the profession's literature in the area of readers' advisory services. She found that very little research existed in the area of…

Collection Knowledge Skills: Training Support Staff For Readers' Advisory

Gary O. Rolstad

All personnel in libraries are key to good service. The visibility of library support staff and their important positions of initial contact with library users make their efforts…

Tools for Readers' Advisory: An Annotated and Selected Bibliography

Dorothy J. White

The following bibliography is annotated and selected to reflect current information available to readers' advisors. These are examples only, and the bibliography is not meant to…

Collection Development of Genre Literature

Elizabeth Futas

For readers' advisory librarians, genre literature can prove to be difficult collection management areas. The literature itself has rarely been defined in anything but the…

The Company We Keep: Advisory Service for Youth

Anne Lundin

In the novel, The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers probes the American malaise through the longings of a young adolescent girl. Twelve‐year‐old Frankie no longer sees the…

Recreational Reading in Academic Browsing Rooms: Resources for Readers' Advisory

Janelle M. Zauha

Browsing rooms are those alluring spaces in the college or university library where the reader may shut out the flood and clamor of information. Here the imagination and personal…

Readers' Advisory in the Academic Library Children's Collection

Mary Lynn Rice‐Lively, Barbara Froling Immroth

Ask a group of mature graduate students what they remember about their early schooling, and you are likely to hear vivid memories of teachers or librarians reading aloud, sharing…

Readers' Advisory Services for Persons with Disabilities

Ann E. Brownson

A young woman approaches the service desk at your library. You recog‐nize her as a person who has used your library extensively in the past, but who has not recently been a…

Recovering Native Identity: Developing Readers' Advisory Services for Non‐Reservation Native Americans

Loriene Roy

Native peoples living within their cultures find themselves the focus of increased attention and are renewing their own ties in a cultural renaissance. Non‐Natives are becoming…

Developing Readers' Advisory Service for Library Users Whose Primary Language is Not English

Susan J. Freiband

This paper presents some ideas about readers' advisory service for library users whose primary language is not English to offer a perspective about some of the issues involved…

Multicultural Issues for Readers' Advisory Services

Ismail Abdullahi

A considerable amount of time and money has been spent debating the ultimate services to multicultural groups. So far, very few programs have been developed to integrate services…

Collecting Foreign Language Material: Some Ideas To Get Started

Tosca O. Gonsalves

As observed by Freiband, in recent years there has been a growth in interest in multicultural and, by extension, multilingual material for libraries. However, although there is…

The Impact of Humanities Programming on Readers' Advisory Services

Anna H. Perrault

A category of humanities public programming which forms a unique type of “readers' advisory” service has developed in the United States in the past 20 years. Encouraged by funding…

Developing Need‐Based Job and Career Information Services in Public Libraries

Joan C. Durrance

The United States has suffered in recent years through periods of severe recession resulting in the loss of jobs. While libraries are located in most communities in the nation…

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0160-4953

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1978 – 2017

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Emerald Publishing Limited