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<DIV>I’m reposting this for those of you who may be interested but are not on
Fiction-L or RUSA mailing lists. Anyone can participate (or sign up and lurk)
and some very good discussions take place. Warning – the traffic for the two
days is quite heavy, so you may want to set up a filter in order to deal with
the messages at your convenience.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope to see some of you there!</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Lynne Welch
- Herrick Memorial Library<BR>101 Willard Mem. Sq. - Wellington, Ohio 44090
USA<BR>tel 440-647-2120 email welchly@oplin.org</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dwright333@yahoo.com
href="mailto:dwright333@yahoo.com">David Wright</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 10, 2014 10:13 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org
href="mailto:fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org">Fiction_L</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Readers Advisory as a Technical Service</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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as a Technical Service<BR><BR><BR>A new CODES Conversation begins October
14th and will run through the 15th. <BR><BR>RA does not just happen in the
stacks and at the public service desk. It happens in the catalog, in collection
development, and in materials processing. Join a community of over 500
librarians interested in all things RA as we discuss how to make sure that the
RA service that happens behind the scenes of public service gets the attention
and focus necessary to make all of RA as robust and useful as
possible.<BR><BR>Some of the topics we will address include:<BR><BR>>How best
to calculate, and what factors to consider in setting, holds
ratios?<BR><BR>>Genre Headings: How (if at all) do
catalogers/patrons/advisors agree to what constitutes a genre? How many headings
do we want/need in an age of genre blends?<BR><BR>>What features of the
catalog support and enrich RA?<BR><BR>>How can the collection development
staff help the public services staff keep up with new titles and
genres?<BR><BR>>What use are stickers on books? How do they work with genre
blends?<BR><BR>>Should we interfile or have divided
collections?<BR><BR>>How do we ensure the best access to paperbacks? And
speaking of paperbacks has the format flipped to some degree to
ebooks?<BR><BR>***<BR>CODES Conversations are focused electronic conversations
on current issues facing collection development and readers’ advisory
librarians—or anyone interested in those areas. The free, moderated discussions
are open to all - just subscribe to the discussion at
http://lists.ala.org/sympa/subscribe/codes-convos, then follow and contribute
(or lurk!) as you wish.<BR><BR> <BR>David
Wright<BR>http://shelftalk.spl.org<BR>
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"Que
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