**RA Training**

If you are looking for ways to brush up on your Readers Advisory skills, there are many training tools available online.

Here are links to some of them:

  * [[https://leagueofextraordinarylibrarians.weebly.com/start-here-how-it-works.html|The League of Extraordinary Librarians]]: A self paced RA continuing education resource. Use this as a refresher, undertake all the modules or just those that are relevant to you.


  * [[https://www.booklistonline.com/GeneralInfo.aspx?id=73|Webinar Archive|Booklist]] is a great resource of past Booklist Webinars


  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSB_-ZFckkw&feature=youtu.be|RA Conversations: Readers' Advisory Prescriptions Duncan Smith]] (NoveList), Becky Spratford ([[http://raforall.blogspot.com/|RA for All]]), and Rebecca Vnuk ([[https://www.booklistonline.com/|Booklist]]) discuss common RA issues and side effects. This is the first program in the “RA Conversations” series brought to you by NoveList and Booklist.


  * [[http://raforall.blogspot.com/|RA for all]](blog) This blog by RA expert Becky is full of useful ideas and links her presentations. Her [[http://raforall.blogspot.com/p/beckys-ten-rules-of-basic-ra-service.html|10 rules of Basic RA service]] is a great tool to keep handy.


  * Nancy Pearl for Bibliocommons: A series of videos available to watch on YouTube. Topics include:  
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1C9A1HqrJ0|Collaborative list making]](no fail choices in different genres)
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wd8ovCVpIg|Writing the 140 character annotation]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ubu03o3oZU|Taking basic book talking skills online]] Taking Basic Book Talking Skills online is a great tutorial on how to read a book in 5 minutes.
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HqripedZo|Bringing our personal interests into RA work]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mFu9V1nKk |Tagging for the four Doorways]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1C9A1HqrJ0|Nancy Pearl: Collaborative listmaking: no fail choices in different genres/topics]].


[[http://olc.org/blog/2017/01/25/ore-online-reference-training-modules-now-available/|Ore Online]] is a virtual reference training program developed by the Ohio Library Council with partial funding from the State Library of Ohio with support from LSTA. 


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