Presenters: Holly Hibner and Mary Kelly. Mary's website is www.awfullibrarybooks.info. She also recommended fark.com, snopes.com, neatorama.com, poitnlesssites.com - all good for starting conversations when doing readers' advisory.
Mary recommended becoming more familiar with the collection by picking a dewey a day and walking through the shelves, flipping through the books. Mood and tone are just as important as topic. She recommended creating a personal go-to list, covering all the dewey ranges. Some suggestions are: The Worst Case Survival Handbook, Type Talk at Work, Too Much of a Good Thing, Stiff (or any Mary Roach), What Einstein Told His Cook, Animals in Translation, The Sociopath Next Door, Ice Bound, The Zombie Survival Guide.
Holly described some techniques for readers' advisory, such as asking patrons what kind of movies or magazines they like. She recommended some books based on tastes (funny, scary, etc.): Flirting With Pride and Prejudice, Monty Python Live, Seeking Spirits (about ghost hunters), A Country Called Amreeka, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Incontinent on the Continent, The Lost City Of Z (which Casey was reading on the plane coming here!), Shop Class as Soulcraft, Sweet Potato Queens.
Holly also discussed pairing fiction with nonfiction. For example, chick-lit readers might like See Jane Write, horror readers might like On Monsters, etc. She recommended some RA websites: readersbanquet.blogspot.com, bookslut.com.
This workshop was fun, and the recommended books are websites were great. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I like the idea of spending more time in the shelves and making lists of recommended reading. I'm excited to get back to the library and get started on this!
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