YA Readers Advisory Workshop

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YA Readers Advisory Workshop

• Annette Birdsall
• Youth Services Consultant
• Finger Lakes Library System

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The Question

• I need a good book
• Do you have a book just like Looking for Alaska?
• I just finished Grease Monkey, what else can I
  read?
• I want to read a book about real people.
• I hate fantasy.
• I like Libba Bray.
• Theres this book its got a boy on the cover...

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The Bad News

• You cant provide readers advisory if youre not
  a reader yourself.
• Really.

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The Good News

• There are readers advisory services that you can
  use even if you havent read the book.
• What are they?
• lists, lists, more lists, listservs, books,
  author websites, publisher websites, award
  websites, summer reading program resources,
  series tools, read-alikes, genres, magazines,
  reviews, databases, your library catalog, your
  bookmarks, folders, displays, your teen readers,
  teachers, school librarians, youth leaders, your
  peers, you

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I want to read a book just like

• Author www.nancywerlin.com/
• Series www.bettendorflibrary.com
• Genre http//www.genrefluent.com
• Reality http//tln.lib.mi.us/amutch/jen/lists.htm
  
• Everyone Else http//www.seeme4books.com
• Interest www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies

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On the spot resources

• You!
• Your teens
• Your peers
• Your return cart circ stats
• Your hand-outs
• Your displays
• Your library

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On the web resources

• Experiment select the ones you use
• Bookmark your favorites
• Share the sites
• Search before you need the title
• Pick one blog that feeds your reading needs
• Its ok to google it.
• Have you seen the wikipedia entry for

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Break Time
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Listservs, Databases the Catalog

• Manage the compiled lists...
• Make them your own
• Books your library owns
• Books you know
• Books that are right for the right age
• Using Novelist
• Using Polaris
• Using (dare I say it?) Amazon.com

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Professional Resources

• Print Resources you should know about.
• Award Lists How to use them
• Referring to the experts.
• Joining professional organizations
• Talking books
• The expert on your teen readers.

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Just for Fun

• www.overduemedia.com
• http//www.bookstandard.com
• http//www.cedarseed.com/air/atc.html
• http//www.eastgreenbushlibrary.org/teen

All images on this page from cedarseed.com
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Your Turn

• Take the card you wrote with your name on one
  side and the one line book description on the
  other and hand it to someone you do not work
  with.
• Find the title of the bookand
• Find the title of a book to read after that
• Return the card.

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Questions/Wrap-Up/Evaluations

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• For follow-up questions, please contact
• Annette Irene Birdsall
• Youth Services Consultant
• Finger Lakes Library System
• annette_at_flls.org
• 607/273-4074 x.27