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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.
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10th August - online meeting 9.30am - 12.30pm
Chair: Minutes:
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Themes - Games and Gardening
Draft
- 9.00 - 9.30 Start with chat in small groups -
- 9.30 Acknowledgment of Country, participants to add name, library and Traditional Owners in chat
- 9.35 indyreads lists. in the future as a special promotion will be a carousel of lists, including libraries’ public lists. Session to include how to create public lists in indyreads.
- 9.45 how to edit the wiki
- 10.00 Breakout session in small groups - 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)
- 10.15 Sharlene Louey (Collections and Contract Management Team Leader, City of Sydney Libraries) talking about Games in Libraries - retro games, appeal characteristics, books about games/including games. A slightly elderly paper on games and readers' advisory by Ellen Forsyth - pdf can be downloaded at link.
- 10.40 Breakout session - how are you using games in your library? How are you linking readers' advisory to games?
- 11.00 - 11.15 - Break - stand up and stretch
- 11.15 Gardening - fiction/non-fiction/cosy mysteries/true crime/ audio while you garden.
- 11.35 Breakout session - how do you connect gardening related books across fiction, non-fiction etc? How do you find them? (cataloguing) Plus seed libraries and readers’ advisory - seed and book matching
- 11.55 What have you been doing in readers' advisory? Come along ready to share
- 12.15 Recruiting new steering committee members (1-2) - they need to help plan meeting, update wiki, and email lists as needed
- Points of communication
- Save the date: next meeting?