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This page is the agenda for the next meeting of the Reader's Advisory Working Group. It will be updated after each meeting so that this page continues to be re-used. Any timings indicated are a rough guide for planning purposes only.

Note all discussions to include non-fiction, across ages, old and new authors as well as making sure inclusive and diverse.

You can see minutes from earlier meetings here. Notices about upcoming meetings, seminars and other business are sent via the State Library NSW PLN and Reference group lists. All NSW public library staff are welcome to subscribe to these lists.

location of meetings in 2021 yet to be decided

Chair: Minutes:

Morning

1. Apologies
2. Acknowledgement of country
3. Introductions
4. Speaker via Blue Jeans
5. What tools do you use to build your skills in RA work, around the room. Please come prepared to talk for 2 to 5 minutes about what you read, watch, or listen to for RA professional development.
6. Readers' advisory promotional material on line and on paper. Bring examples of material, or put photographs, links to videos or screen shots on the wiki prior to the meeting (contact Ellen if you are having trouble doing this). There will be a round-the-room discussion.

Afternoon

1. NSW Public Library wiki - how to edit, with a focus on putting in useful links.
2. Book Clubs: how to, best practice, challenges, models. Please come prepared to talk about your book clubs (perhaps a five minute presentation? You can do this online as well as in person)
3. Staff Engagement with RA - how do you get your staff to engage with RA? Please share your strategies.
4. What have you been reading? (Standing item - focus is on how you would help a client - short readers' advisory talk practice, not 'what I loved reading' not the plot, but the emotion and appeal, must be under 1 minute per person)
5. Points of communication
6. Save the date: next meeting? For future discussion: - Readers' advisory events, people to come prepared (and it can be online) to talk for 2 to five minutes how their library does it (and what not to do). It can be about talks, reading groups, how you connect readers' advisory resources and skills to events and much more.