Welcome to the first entries in the Reader’s Advisor Online Blog. We hope to make this blog the place for keeping up on what’s happening in the RA world.
Make us your first stop on Monday morning when we’ll list the hottest titles to be published in the upcoming 7 days. We’ll also do a list called “Bestseller Mashup.” This list is intended especially for RA librarians, and is made by taking an average of the rank of top selling titles from the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Booksense and Powell’s Books, both for fiction and narrative nonfiction.
Since we leave out the diet books and how-to books and anything that is not narrative nonfiction, this list will be a consensus of the top selling narrative reads for each week. That means one glance at our lists in the righthand column will show you the titles likely to be in most demand–both those currently at the top of all the bestseller lists, and the hottest titles due to hit the shelves that week.
This week we’re also very excited about blogging the RA-related programs at the ALA conference, so if you’re stuck on the desk back at home, we hope you’ll feel a bit more connected when Jessica Zellers or others tell you exactly what Zane really said! If you’ll be attending the conference and are willing to blog RA programs, just let us know by sending a message to rablog@lu.com.
And even if you are stuck at home, please participate in our contest to determine what people are reading right now (see Nosy Librarians below). Or take a moment to play the Six Degrees game with Sarah Statz Cords.
We hope to make this blog a place for sharing news about RA services in libraries. We’d like to hear what you think, we’re looking for contributors, and we would love to know about RA service in your library. Feel free to link to us, and send us the links to your blogs. And remember–keep those comments coming!
You heard it right here, folks. I’ll be covering Zane and every other RA session I can get to. And since one presenter has already threatened me not to discuss irrelevant details (“Don’t you dare mention the dress I’ll be wearing! It makes my butt look big!”), you’ll get nothing but the juicy meat of the sessions. Nothing but substance, coming your way.