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• Lim Goodarzi, Concord Library
• Amy heap, Riverina Regional Library
• Ellen Forsyth, SLNSW
• Sarah Wild, Mosman
• Claude Broomhead, Canada Bay
• Monique Akauola, Sutherland
• Helen Cowen, Wingecarribee
• Eric Dodson, Lane Cove
• Kristy Nightingale, Hornsby
• Blue Mountains (x2) Heidi Colquhoun RSVP’d on their behalf
• Catharine Rutar, Blacktown
• Renee F, Ashfield
• Michelle Cairns, Ku-ring-gai
• David Hay, Waverley
• Rita Gertskis, Randwick
• Stephanie Hodgson, Auburn
• Robyn Menzies (x2), Hawkesbury Library

Ellen put all the suggested themes up on the wall and everyone was allowed to cast 10 votes. The themes are as follows:

• January - #wildread (11 votes)
• February - #speedread (10 votes)
• March - #redread (17 votes)
• April - #bardread (Shakespeare died in April 1616)
• May - #songread (9 votes) to coincide with Eurovision
• June - #bookclubread (24 votes)
• July - #artread (24 votes) to coincide with the Archibald Prize
• August - #geekread (17 votes) Science Week
• September - #historyread (we felt this filled a gap in the themes)
• October - #bookbitesread (13)
• November - #flightread (14 votes) Armistace/Remembrance Day
• December - #joyread (22 votes).

The themes were expanded and the descriptions can be found on the shared Google doc. If anyone is keen to write or co-write a blog post for any particular month, please email someone on the steering committee. The posts will go live in August so that libraries can plan ahead – you can get all of your hootsuiting done in half an hour.

• Motive by Jonathan Kellerman
• The Fig at the Gate by Kate Llewellyn
• Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
• The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
• All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• Siren by Tara Moss
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Left Early, Took the Dog and When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
• Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
• The Broken Shore by Peter Temple * Quicksand by Steve Toltz
• Ramona Forever by Beverley Cleary
• Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
• Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
• Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
• The Haunting of Death Eric by Sam Llewellyn
• We are in a Book by Mo Willems
• Class Act: Ending the Education Wars by Maxine McKew * The Bees by Laline Paull
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Children Act by Ian McEwan
• Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
• The Well at the World’s End by A. J. Mackinnon
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
• Common Threads: Weaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art by Sharon Kallis
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling

• Not every library is able to participate in the twitter book discussion, but they can still be involved.
• Many libraries use the RWP themes as a display
• One library has created a disply based around a theme, and left Post-It notes for the customers to write down titles they would include.
• Instagram could be a great way to be involved in RWP discussion
• A reminder that using Hootsuite means a years worth of posts could be scheduled in 30 minutes (Ellen tested this!), so it is a very small time commitment

Ellen mentioned a great example of Storify as a Readers Advisory tool. Catherine Fletcher (@Cath-Fletcher), a historical advisor on the Wolf Hall TV series live tweeted during the show, to give people background into the research that was done. It is available here There was discussion around the room of the value of shelving different formats together, eg of interfiling Non Fiction DVDs with the Non Fiction book collection. Some libraries have tried this with mixed success, but shelving the music DVDs with the CD collection appears to be very successful.

• Not many libraries represented in the room are offering roving Readers Advisory. There was discussion that pop-up or mobile libraries offer a great opportunity to do this.
• Tamworth and Taree libraries are doing great Roving reference, and might offer some ideas and inspiration. A link to their presentation at the last Reference at the Metcalfe is available on the reference wiki.

A reminder that there are links to free Readers Advisory training on the RA wiki. Some of the tools include webinars and YouTube videos, and could be used as training in the library, or at home. Please take some time to have a look at it, and if you are aware of other tools and resources that are useful, please add them, or let us know.

Everyone in encouraged to visit the new Public Libraries in NSW Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/PublicLibrariesNSW.

If you haven’t been signed up to our DropBox where we collect your images and posts, please email me Barbara.todes@randwick.nsw.gov.au and I will send you an invitation. You don’t need to download DropBox onto your computer, you can use the online version.

We will be working through the points raised from the Readers Advisory Survey. A summary of the discussion is available in the attachments below.

There is a great Ebsco webinar called Meeting Your Community's Demand for Books that discusses strategies to help the community find the 'right' book.

Waga City Library had great success when they arranged their picture books into subject areas like transport, animals, favourites etc. This idea was inspired by Darien Library, a service in the USA.