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E-books and Readers' Advisory
"I can appreciate the benefits of this new technology but I just don't like the idea of my reading being out of the ordinary."
- A comment by a library patron to me when I was discussing the benefits of e-readers for those with reading disabilities. This highlights to me the work that needs to be done to make e-Books part of the ordinary reading experience. So what might be the role of RA in a library environment in which more and more forms as well as genres are being created and made available to the readers of the world?
Some suggested reading:
Barry Trott and Neil Hollands, 2011. Contemporary and future roles for readers' advisory in public libraries. Reference Reborn: Breathing new life into public services librarianship. Diana Zabel (ed). Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited
Janice van de Velde, 2011, E-books - a research report into recent trends and the response of libraries.
Jessica E. Moyer (ed), 2010. Integrated advisory service: Breaking through the book boundary to better serve library users.
"Integrated advisory is a way of providing advisory services to library users that includes different formats and media while staying focused around a genre." (p. xii)
Katie Dunneback, 2011. E-books and readers' advisory. Reference & User Services Quarterly, vol 50 iss 4, pp 325-329.
"Any time a new format is introduced in libraries, we need to look at how that format affects the readers' approach to the material." (p. 325)
Barry Trott, 2009. Building on a firm foundation: Readers' advisory over the next twenty-five years. Reference & User Services Quarterly, vol 48 iss 2, pp 132-135.
Michael Pryor, 2019. What's the most popular genre? https://aurealis.com.au/blog/