Readers' Advisory for a New Age: Social Media and Tech Tools

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Thursday, February 27, 2014, 3-4:30 pm

Anna Mickelson, Reference Librarian, Springfield, MA

Kaite Mediatore Stover, Director of Readers' Services, The Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO

Reader's Advisory, the art of matching books with their potential readers, has entered the social media realm thanks to Twitter, Goodreads, and more, adding new resources to reader's advisory librarian's toolkits. Readers are also using technology to find their next good read and finding the choices wide, varied, and sometimes overwhelming. Experts Anna Mickelsen and Kaite Stover will cut through the clutter, introducing techniques and tools for readers' advisory, and emphasizing an online approach applicable to even the smallest library.

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