The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (Ala Readers' Advisory) - Softcover

Saricks, Joyce G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838909892 ISBN 13: 9780838909898

Verlag: ALA Editions, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format. Expert readers' advisor Joyce Saricks offers groundbreaking reconsideration of the connections among genres, providing: key authors and themes within 15 genres; an explanation as to how the different genres overlap; and, the elements of fiction most likely to entice readers. Provocative and spirited, ""The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, 2nd Edition"" offers hands-on strategies for librarians who want to become experts at figuring out what their readers are seeking and how to match books with those interests.

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Joyce G. Saricks has worked as coordinator of the Literature and Audio Services Department at the Downers Grove Public Library since 1983. In addition to co-authoring Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library (ALA Editions), she has published several articles on readers' advisory and co-created the Adult Reading Round Table, an organization of more than 200 Chicago-area readers' advisors. In 1989, Saricks won the Public Library Association's Allie Beth Martin Award, and in 2000 was named Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America. She has presented more than seventy workshops on readers' advisory for public libraries and library systems around the country. Saricks earned her master's degree in library science from the University of Chicago.

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• Verlag: ALA Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0838909892
• ISBN 13: 9780838909898
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402
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