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Presenters
Jennifer Reichert Simpson, Downtown Regional Manager
Misha Stone,Librarian, Reader Services
Jared Mills,Supervising Librarian, Montlake Branch
Session Goals
Learn about readers’ advisory projects and services including:
Practical experience on implementation
Patron response
Evaluation
What would work at your library?
Reconnect with Reading
Supported by a $90,000 grant from the
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Project Goals:
1. To build staff knowledge and skills
2. Find ways to connect with readers online
Reconnect with Reading Team
0 Grant Manager & Administration Sponsor
0 Project Lead & Project Teams
0 Pilot Project Staffing: team with opportunities for participation
How to make sure your bases are covered?
Project Plan: Description GoalsMeasures of SuccessTarget AudienceStaffingTimeline External Marketing Plan/Internal
Communication PlanBudget
Projects
Staff training: Nancy Pearl and staff-created training
Your Next 5 Books: personalized reading list service online
Online Presence: video booktalks, social media & online book group.
Trainer extraordinaire: Nancy Pearl!
Training
0Build confidence & capacity for RA
0Nancy Pearl: “Opening Doors, Opening Books” Training
0Staff trained: approx. 200 librarians & LAIVs
0Survey results: More training!
Staff-created Training Videos
0RA Conversations 1, 2 & 3
0Don’t Panic—You Can Do It!
0Can You Suggest a Book?
0That Book is Not on the Shelf: Read-alikes
0Audacity recordings, Powerpoint, Camtasia, etc.
0http://vimeo.com/user17844224
https://vimeo.com/user17844224
I like hearing librarians have a conversation about
RA, admitting past mistakes, being nervous, and offering suggestions
for ways to improve.
This was a great refresher training and I particularly loved this format—”video” podcast is the way to go for these types of trainings! I wouldn’t want to eliminate face-to-face trainings with colleagues but we’re so busy with our regular work…This is a happy medium—great training with smart people and no travel time!
The tone of the conversations really demystify Readers' Advisory and the funny little side comments on the video were pretty dang entertaining.
Your Next 5 Books
0Piloted for 2 summers for Teens by Hayden Bass
0New form, training, branch staff
0All ages
0Bibliocommons
0 Hi- I am trying to get a book for my mom to read. She is almost 91. She LOVES suspense, WWII, etc. She has read all Ken Follett's books. She wants excitement!! If you can find anything to fit the bill she (and I!!) would be thrilled! She is losing her sight and reads on a Kindle. Thank You!!!
I am so impressed with this service! It’s the greatest since chocolate
milk!
It feels a little uncanny how accurately you gauged my reading tastes!
I know we aren’t friends and that you are just doing your job—but this is the best present anyone has ever given me! Thank you a million times!
Video Booktalks
0Project Goals
0Equipment
0YouTube channel
0Social Media Team
0Global Reading
0Institutional barriers/delays
Scope
0The video book talk project was designed to create book talk videos of 30 seconds or less and host them on a Library YouTube channel, embed them within the Library’s social catalog and use them as marketing posts on FaceBook, Twitter and the Library’s blogs.
A camera and a microphone
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Measurables
# of staff participating
# of book talks produced
# of videos added to the catalog
# of views on the Library’s YouTube Channel
Standards checklist
Style guide for book talks
How did we do?
Standards for video
What we learned
0Social Media Team: who’s in it, roles
0Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Seattle readers collaborate on book lists
Librarians are standing by! Tell us a book you liked; we’ll give you a
book you’ll love!
Questions, please!
Email us with any questions!
