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EXCEL: A certificate programme in
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E19-Readers' Advisory Services
ASSIGNMENT 1
For this assignment, you will read the article found in Appendix A (“RA as Reference” by Traci Avet).
In this article, she describes something that she calls the “readers’-advisory-is-not-quite-reference line of thinking”. She also describes some of the resources that she uses to work in the area of readers’ advisory.
After reading the article, and considering your point about readers’ advisory service in the library, you will describe the readers’ advisory service offered in your library. From what you know so far about readers’ advisory work, describe how you answer questions from patrons. In addition, describe the kind of questions that you have answered about fiction or non-fiction books that people are reading for pleasure (as opposed to ‘for information’).
Your description should be at least one page in length. Please keep a copy of this assignment on hand as we will use it to compare what you know now about readers’ advisory work with the possibilities you discover by the end of the course.
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2007 Edition