Library Journal's URLearning Series: Reading Groups—New Angles Make Them Work
-- Library Journal, 12/5/2006
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Now you can join the 300 librarians who annually attend Library Journal's Day of Dialog, a series of provocative panels held directly before BookExpo America that feature librarians, publishers, and vendors on hot-button issues in the library market. Watch parts 1-3 of our video to revisit one of the key panels recorded live at the 2006 event. It's part of LJ's URLearning series. You'll come away with a slew of ideas for updating book discussions at your library.
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PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
Book groups: they're hot, they're multiplying, and they're not just 12 readers with a battered copy of Pride and Prejudice. Reading Group Discussions, Parts I, II, and III outlines the future of America's favorite new pastime. First, publishers explain how they can help the process. Random House goes beyond the ubiquitous reading group guide to offer an e-newsletter and also helps bring authors and readers together via speakerphone. If you like the phone-in idea, consider the author podcasts just introduced by HarperCollins or a really daring approach promoted by Queens Borough Public Library: using videoconferencing equipment to transport the author into the library. Or take the low-tech road and combine books thematically or across genres with, say, a jaunt to the movies. You'll find all these ideas and more online when you view Reading Group Discussions, Parts I, II, and III, brought to you directly from Day of Dialog.
KEY TOPICS
- Author Phone Calls
- Video Conferencing/ Webcasts
- Podcasting
- Alternative Book Group Ideas
- Reading Guides
FACILITATOR
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Book Review, Library Journal
Barbara Hoffert is the Library Journal Book Review Editor. In 2006, she won the prestigious Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group Award given by a division of the American Library Association (ALA) “for significant achievement related to a reviewing process that helps librarians make selection decisions.” Hoffert has been with the LJ Book Review department for nearly 20 years, and has been its editor since 1992. She also served as president of the National Book Critics Circle and chair of ALA RUSA’s materials reviewing committee.
PANELISTS
Amy Baker, Director of Marketing, HarperPerennial
Kathleen Degyansky, Assistant Director of Programs and Services, Queens Borough Public Library
Sarah Pucillo, Library Marketing Coordinator, Random House
Neal Wyatt, Collection Management Librarian, Chesterfield County Public Library, VA, and compiler of “Wyatt’s World,” Library Journal
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