Thanks to Jenna Gilles-Turner for the guest post!
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Boys reading |
I have been trying to help youth even when I am not in the library. I have come up with various ways to help kids find books on our
shelves and with reader's advisory. I've come up with some "If You Liked
XYZ, Now Try ABC" bookmarks - I have Judy Moody, Geronimo Stilton, Star
Wars, and Magic Tree House because these are our most popular series. I stick
one or two in the books on the shelves and also have them available on my desk.
I am also working on reader's advisory paint stick labels. They will be stuck
near popular series and authors and include 3-6 other series or authors they
might enjoy. Not all are found in our library so if somebody has not made use
of the MORE catalog, they might be encouraged to do so. I also have bookmarks
with adult and child-friendly reader's advisory websites that people can use
when we are closed. They have been flying off our circulation desk. They are
nothing fancy, but folks seem to appreciate them. If you'd like to see them, you can contact me at jgilles @ fallcreekpubliclibrary.org.
Down the road, I will do something similar with the juvenile
non-fiction section, too. Our everybody non-fiction and young adult non-fiction
sections are too small for this.
Labels: readers' advisory