Education for Readers’ Advisory Service in Library and Information Science Programs: Challenges and Opportunities

References and Notes

1. Dana Watson and the RUSA CODES Readers’ Advisory Committee, “Time to Turn the Page: Library Education for Readers’ Advisory Services,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 40, no. 2 (Winter 2000): 143–46.
2. Duncan Smith, “Talking with Readers: A Competency Based Approach to Readers’ Advisory Service,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 40, no. 2 (Winter 2000): 135–42.
3. Kenneth D. Shearer and Robert Burgin, “Partly Out of Sight; Not Much in Mind: Master’s Level Education for Adult Readers’ Advisory Services,” The Readers’ Advisor’s Companion, ed. Kenneth D. Shearer and Robert Burgin, (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001), 23.
4. Smith, “Talking with Readers,” 138.
5. The latest editions of these works are listed here: Joyce Saricks, Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library, 3rd ed. (Chicago, ALA, 2005); Diana Tixier Herald, Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction, 6th ed., ed. Wayne Wiegand, (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006); Joyce Saricks, Readers’ Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (Chicago: ALA, 2001); Shearer and Burgin, The Readers’ Advisor’s Companion.
6. Anne K. May, Elizabeth Olesh, and Anne Weinlich Miltenberg, “A Look at Readers’ Advisory Services,” Library Journal 125, no. 15 (September 5, 2000): 40–43.
7. Richard E. Bopp and Linda C. Smith, Reference and Information Services: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001).
8. Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Kirsti Nilsen, and Patricia Dewdney, Conducting the Reference Interview: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2002); Kay Ann Cassell and Uma Hiremath, Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004).
9. For example, Jessica Moyer, “Learning from Leisure Reading: A Study of Adult Public Library Patrons,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 46, no. 4 (Summer 2007): 66–79.
10. Catherine Ross, “Finding Without Seeking: The Information Encounter in the Context of Reading for Pleasure,” Information Processing and Management 35 (November 1999): 783–99.
11. Wayne Wiegand, “Missing the Real Story: Where Library and Information Science Fails the Library Profession,” The Readers’ Advisor’s Companion, ed. Kenneth D. Shearer and Robert Burgin, (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001), 9–10.
12. Mary K. Chelton, “Reader’s Advisory Work,” in Cassell and Hire-math, Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004), 254.
13. Saricks, Readers’ Advisory Service, 74–84.
14. Neal Wyatt, “Reading Maps Remake RA,” Library Journal 131, no. 18 (Nov 1, 2006): 38–42.
15. For a good overview of reading research, see Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Lynne McKechnie, and Paulette M. Rothbauer, Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community (Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006); Wayne Wiegand, “On the Social Nature of Reading,” in Herald, Genreflecting, offers an interdisciplinary overview on social aspects of reading.
16. Jessica E. Moyer, “Adult Fiction Reading: A Literature Review of Readers’ Advisory Services, Adult Fiction Librarianship, and Fiction Readers,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 44, no. 3 (Spring 2005): 220–31.
17. Sharon L. Baker and Karen L. Wallace, The Responsive Public Library: How to Develop and Market a Winning Collection, 2nd ed. (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2002).
18. Saricks, Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library, 137.
19. Neil Hollands, “Improving the Model for Interactive Readers’ Advisory Service,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 45, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 205–12.
20. Wyatt, “Reading Maps Remake RA.”
21. Watson, “Time to Turn the Page.”
22. Shearer and Burgin, The Readers’ Advisor’s Companion.
23. American Library Association, Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies 1992 (Chicago: American Library Association, 1992) www.ala.org/ala/accreditation/accredstandards.
24. Wiegand, “Missing the Real Story;” Watson, “Time to Turn the Page.”
25. Smith, “Talking with Readers,” 137.
26. Ibid., 138–139.
27. Chelton, “Reader’s Advisory Work,” 99.
28. American Library Association, Standards for Accreditation.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.

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