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:

• 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.

• Webinar Archive|Booklist is a great resource of past Booklist Webinars

• RA Conversations: Readers' Advisory Prescriptions Duncan Smith (NoveList), Becky Spratford (RA for All), and Rebecca Vnuk (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.

• RA for all(blog) This blog by RA expert Becky is full of useful ideas and links her presentations. Her 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:

1. Collaborative list making(no fail choices in different genres)
2. Writing the 140 character annotation
3. 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.
4. Bringing our personal interests into RA work
5. Tagging for the four Doorways
6. Nancy Pearl: Collaborative listmaking: no fail choices in different genres/topics.

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.

Fresh Titles for Book Club - Library Journal Webcast. Do you struggle to find titles that your book clubs will devour and jump start lively discussions? Look at a variety of refreshing book club picks that promise to add new favorite authors to your book club rosters.