Reaching New Heights in Readers’ Advisory PaLA Conference, October 2016 Wendy Bartlett Collection Development and Acquisitions Manager Cuyahoga County Public Library

Appeal Factors Are History; Get to Know Your Reader Instead Start a conversation; do a reference interview; make it FUN and convenient; be yourself; READ WILDLY !!!!!!! turn your patrons on to great reads!

Personalized Service in an Impersonal Era My Librarian—Multnomah County Library (Portland, Oregon) Book Squad—Lawrence, Kansas Public Library Bookfix—Darien Connecticut Public Library Read Intuit—Cuyahoga County Public Library: http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Borrow/What-to-Read/Reading- Recommendations.aspx Indie Bookstores—postcards, bookseller staff picks, etc.

Administrators: This slide’s for you Give them free books and book related gifts Reward them for reading: start a Gold Star program! Subscribe to book related periodicals for the staff room only, including People and Entertainment Weekly Set a good example—sign your emails with “Currently Reading Such and Such” Ask your employees what they are reading

Button UP!

“Must Have” RA tools CCPL’s What to Read (http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Borrow/What-to- Read/Reading-Recommendations.aspx ) Librarything.com Goodreads.com (Amazon will love you for it!) Ramapo Catskill Library System—Resources/LibGuides/Readers Advisory: http://guides.rcls.org/ra Novelist Plus

Invest in Yourself as a Reader READ WILDLY!!!! Take Ten: that’s 5o minutes every work week Are you IN a book club? Sell your TV Read the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Book Review cover to cover Take six week sabbaticals from Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat Take Reading Vacations Talk to people about books everywhere you go

Notes

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Contact Information wbartlett@cuyahogalibrary.org Follow me on Twitter: @CCPL_WendyB