The emphasis on appeal factors has made me think about the books I read in a more analytical way. The appeal factors definitely help in evaluating books for readers advisory. I will have to continue to review the appeal factors so that I become more adept at summarizing the appeal of a book for myself or another reader.
The variety of reader's advisory and genre websites will be useful in helping customers find books. I subscribed to several e-newsletters that have reviews of new books. I will have to keep up with these websites in order to stay on top of books that are not just on the best-seller lists. Book trailers and teen/adult crossover books were pretty new to me before I looked at them for the Bookish Blog. Practice is the hardest part of reader's advisory, but that is how you learn to use the tools we studied this spring. I will definitely be referring back to all we have reviewed, and I will be looking for other articles and websites about reader's advisory to expand my knowledge. I hope that I have learned enough to provide better reader's services to our customers at Towson.
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