Readers advisory

No two advisors will come up with the same list of books, but these readers’ advisory tools can offer guidance when you’re out of your genre or depth.

We created a toolkit based on Nancy Pearl’s four doorways approach to Readers’ Advisory, that may be used by any public library interested in creating ...

I run a Pokemon Club at my library as part of a regular series of after school programs. The kids who come to my club are always very excited to be here, and they often stop by and talk about Pokemon or ask me when we'll meet again, even if Pokemon Club is weeks away. I am glad to have such a large group of kids who come to the library on a regular basis, but I wanted to find a way to keep them engaged with the library between meetings. I know these kids love their Pokemon and they love…

Teen librarian Karen Jensen shares some thoughts about reader's advisory and the recent online trend of creating RA menus

I love encouraging my students to explore a variety of genres, but sometimes that means I need to explicitly teach them about the genres first! These free genre posters are the perfect way to do just that!

Hello, Sunshine! All yellow covers for high school library book display!

I was asked to create a young adult readers advisory poster for Cedar Park Public Library. This is what I came up with. At first I wanted to do modern fairy tales, but I found that I hadn’t a…