July 2010

Readers' Advisor News

An e-newsletter published quarterly by Libraries Unlimited

Featured Article

Science Fiction: Stories for a Changing World by Christopher McKitterick

… SF is about how we have changed, how external change affects us, how things we do change the world around us, and how we will continue to change over time. …
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Scholarship and Research

Reader's Advisory in the Academic Library: Issues and Ideas by Venta Silins

… Using creativity and ambition, there are simple and inexpensive ways to integrate reader’s advisory into an academic library’s mission. …
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Library Perspective

Immigrant Readers: Feeling "at Home" in Library Reading Programs by Keren Dali

… For immigrant readers, leisure reading and communication about reading also serve another function — that of a familiar and efficient instrument of acculturation, which ideally results in general well-being and feeling "at home" in a new country. …
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Industry Perspective

Libraries and Book Stores: A Natural Partnership by Chuck Robinson

… the fortunes of libraries and independent bookstores, and the future of reading and books, are integrally intertwined. …
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