title: The Readers' Advisory Handbook (ALA Readers' Advisory)
author: Jessica E. Moyer
description: As readers advisory matures, it involves much more than the act of matching a reader with a book. It encompasses a broader range of materials and library users and also informs the way materials are reviewed, selected, promoted, and used. There are books that lay out the core principles of readers advisory or that address a particular genre or the needs of a particular audience. This compilation fills a gap by presenting the full range of skills, techniques, and practices that now make up readers-advisory service. It is divided into five parts: Getting to Know Your Materials; Reviewing and Evaluating Materials; Marketing, Promoting, and Sharing Materials; Programming; and Expanding Readers Advisory Services. Chapters authored by a number of familiar names (among others, Sue-Ellen Beauregard on reviewing audiobooks, Heather Booth on working with teens, Sarah Statz Cords on getting to know nonfiction, Lynne Welch on creating read-alikes, and David Wright on providing storytime for adults) join chapters by editors Moyer and Stover in providing a comprehensive guide. Several of the chapters contain samples and worksheets. A valuable addition to the growing readers-advisory shelf. --Mary Ellen Quinn
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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  Recently, a reader told me that the acknowledgments are her favorite part of
  any book. (What does that say about the rest of the pages? I wondered.) Well,
  believe me when I tell you I had a lot of support—a great deal of comfort,if
  you will—as I wrote this novel. It was deeply appreciated during what has been
  a hectic and tumultuous year.
  
  
  Many thanks to everyone at Putnam, especially Ivan Held, the ever cheery and
  always helpful Eve Adler and Rachel Holtzman, and above all to Rachel Kahan,
  the smartest and most understanding editor in New York. Equally patient were
  Sue Fletcher and Swati Gamble in London. And I’m very grateful for the
  attention that this book has received from everyone in sales, marketing,
  publicity, editorial, production, and design.
  
  
  Deserving of her very own paragraph is my insightful and caring agent, Dorian
  Karchmar, of the William Morris Agency. I leave every conversation with Dorian
  having laughed and learned, and few things reassure a wr