First off, I want to say that I was gonna go to the Readers Advisory Toolkit workshop this morning anyway. Finding out the presenters were handing out chocolate was just a bonus.<\/p>\n
An awesome bonus.<\/p>\n
I took some time between morning sessions to explore the exhibit hall a bit more – and visit the ALSC booth! – so this blog post will have to be cut a little short. Instead of highlighting the top five things I took away from my workshop this morning, I’ve got to limit myself to just three.<\/p>\n
Top 1. Instead of asking patrons the question, “What kind of books do you like?” to help guide me (often answered with a blank stare or a shrug in my department), I will now ask children to name me 3 books they loved and 3 books they hated and why. <\/em>(Or maybe just one book of each. We’ll see how it goes.)<\/p>\n 2. Shame on me for forgetting about AV materials when it comes to blogging staff picks! I regularly recommend videos and music; why would I leave them out of my online RA? The presenters reminded us to consider reading as ‘story in every form’ – whether it be print, audio, e-book, etc.<\/p>\n 3. I am also now motivated to not only update my departmental bookmarks, but also to include them in outreach visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off, I want to say that I was gonna go to the Readers Advisory Toolkit workshop this morning anyway. Finding out the presenters were handing out chocolate was just a bonus. An awesome bonus. I took some time between morning sessions to explore the exhibit hall a bit more – and visit the ALSC booth! – so this blog post will have to be cut a little short. Instead of highlighting the top five things I took away from my workshop this morning, I’ve got to limit myself to just three. Top Five Three Things: 1. Instead of asking patrons the question, “What kind of books do you like?” to help guide me (often answered with a blank stare or a shrug in my department), I will now ask children to name me 3 books they loved and 3 books they hated and why. (Or maybe just one book…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[151,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogging","category-pla-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Five<\/del> Three Things:<\/p>\n