Readers’ Advisory Interest Group Meeting

Saturday, November 11 at CAL

We did a lot of brainstorming about what the RAIG can do next year.  In one form or another, everyone seems to want training, training, training.  Among the suggested formats:  email tutorials, classes through CLiC broadcast on OPAL, in-person workshops and/or meetings, podcasting trainings, sharing library specific RA training.

The other idea that kept coming up was having an online site that would be easy to access with lots of RA info on it.  A wiki seemed the most popular idea so that people could add to it easily and have it connected to individual library websites and vice versa.  We are checking to see if a good wiki exists that we could use and add to or whether we’ll want to start our own.

We talked some about online RA tools like Novelist and the new What Do I Read Next Gale product.

We decided to have quarterly meetings with a training component.  Katharine Phenix volunteered to host the first one at Northglenn.  The website Katharine was trying to remember where you put in the names of three authors and it suggests another you might like is Gnooks:

http://www.gnooks.com

It is great fun and looks like it will be very useful.

Gee, this all sounds boring compared to how lively the meeting was!

If you missed the presentations at CAL, check out the handouts for:

Crossing Over:  Adult Titles for Teens, Dedra Anderson and Tina Poliseo, Douglas County Libraries 

http://www.cal-webs.org/handouts06/CrossingOver.doc

Romance: the Most Misunderstood Genre, Alice Kober, Arapahoe Library District

http://www.cal-webs.org/handouts06/Romance1.pdf

http://www.cal-webs.org/handouts06/Romance2.pdf

http://www.cal-webs.org/handouts06/Romance3.pdf

Save the date now for our first quarterly Readers’ Advisory Interest Group meeting:  Thursday, February 8

9 to 12

Northglenn Library

10530 N. Huron

Northglenn  80234