Competency #8-Internet

Using Google, I found the web-site for the Multnomah County Library www.multcolib.org/books/lists/adultlists.html. Their web-site has a readers page which allows the user to view booklists, staff picks, and award lists for children, teen, and adults. As a librarian, I can utilize this page when helping my customers find new authors and titles.

Competency #7-Multimedia

For this competency, I am including a picture of 2 displays featured at the Daviess County Public Library located in Owensboro, Kentucky. Displays are essential tools when promoting reader's advisory services in the library.

Competency #6-Specific Facet; Diaglog

For the fourth and final part of the 6th competency, I am choosing to utilize the specific facet search strategy while searching the Library Literature and Information Science database available through Dialog.

I was not able to locate any information on providing reader's advisory services in public libraries using Dialog. Since part of providing readers advisory is being familiar with popular materials, I chose to search for information on banned books week. The following screen shots my search and results.

Competency #6-Citation Pearl; LibLit

For the third part of the 6th competency, I am choosing to utilize the citation pearl search strategy while searching the LibLit database. The following screen shots show my initial search of readers advisory which produced 224 results.


After reviewing the results, I decided to add public libraries to my initial search in an attempt to narrow the results. The next 2 screen shots show the search which produced 94 results.


Finally in another attempt to narrow my search, I again reviewed the results and decided to add fiction to the search. The next 2 screen shots will show my search which produced 22 results.


The final screen shot is of the 5th hit which is a thesis about promoting fiction collections by using different library web-sites. This is another tool that successful readers' advisors can use to promote this service.

Competency #6-Building Block-ERIC

For the second part of the 6th competency, I am choosing to focus on the Building Block search strategy while seaching the ERIC database. I created the following 2 sets of information:

s1=readers advisory
s2=public libraries
s1 and s2

This search produced 24 results. The 14th hit is an article that discusses tools public libraries can use to promote this service in the library.

The following screens show my search and the results:

Competency #6-Successive Fractions; Books in Print

For this competency, we were instructed to utilize the search strategies that were discussed in our textbook. For the first part of the 6th competency, I am choosing to use the search strategy of Sucessive Fractions while searching the Books in Print database. The first screen shot shows my initial search of readers advisory.


The second screen shot shows my initial set of 25 results.

To narrow my search, I added public libraries to my initial search of readers advisory. The next 2 screen shots show the new search screen and the second set of 7 results.


The last screen shot shows the 3rd hit which describes a book, Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library, by Joyce Saricks.

Competency #5-Tagging, Indexing, & Cataloging

Using librarything.com, I found the tag cloud for Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library. As a public librarian providing readers advisory services to patrons in my community, this resource will help in establishing and expanding this service.
http://www.librarything.com/work/106992

Tag clouds for this resource...

(1) 1998(1) 2006(2) 5c(1) books(1) discontinued(1) home(1) ischool(1) librarians(1) librarianship(4) libraries(3) library(2) library information services(1) library owns(1) library school(2) library science(7) non-fiction(7) officebooks(1) personal library(1) professional development(1) public library(3) read(3) read for class(1) reader's advisory(4) readers advisory(5) readers' advisory(5) Readers'Advisory PublicLibrary(1) reading(1) reference(3) shelved in office(1) staff(1) textbook(4) training(1) work(1)

RSS -Competency #4

Using ALA's website, I discovered the RSS feed from Booklist. I chose Booklist because of the book reviews published, various book award announcements, and other articles of interest pertaining to libraries. The journal has a wealth of knowledge that will assist me in my job.
http://blog.booklistonline.com/feed/

Podcast-Competency #3

Using the Yahoo Podcasts search engine, I found "The Four Doorways" podcast (http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/publib/news/nancy_pearl). In it, Nancy Pearl describes the 4 ways readers can enter a book. She states that people choose the type of books they do based on at least one of the following elements present in the plot line:

• Story
• Character
• Setting
• Language

I chose this podcast because it will be very helpful in my current job position. As the training coordinator for my department, I am responsible for the reader's advisory training presented to our employees.

Welcome!

This blog was created to satisfy the course requirements of ISAR 5013 (Information Storage & Retrieval). I will post competencies here throughout the Spring 2008 semester as part of my grade for this class.

I am working towards my master's degree in Library Science. Since I am interested in the public library setting, I will focus on the topic of providing reader's advisory services to library patrons.