Crossover Readers' Advisory: Maximize Your Collection to Meet Reader Satisfaction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440838461 ISBN 13: 9781440838460

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2016

Synopsis

Help maximize your existing collection with this browsable volume containing titles that serve double-duty with their appeal to both teens and adults and cover genres spanning crime novels, romance, horror, science fiction, and more.

An indispensable reference for libraries, this book takes the guesswork out of crossover readers' advisory by allowing you to easily guide teens who enjoy reading adult books and adults who enjoy reading teen stories. Chapters written by genre experts will help you better understand each genre's appeal to teens and adults as well as list dozens of titles that lend themselves to both groups of readers. The approach will help you maximize your collection while better serving your patrons.

The work is divided into two parts: the first part covers adult books for teens, while the second section delves into teen books for adults. Chapters include a definition of the genre, appealing features unique to the category, the factors that make the works suitable for crossover, a listing of relevant titles and annotations, and trends on the horizon. Genres covered include urban fantasy, mainstream, historical fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction.

About this title

About the Author

Jessica E. Moyer, PhD, is assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Information Studies.

Reviews

Moyer (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; a 2008 LJ Mover & Shaker) says this work will help improve a librarian's ability to assist patrons without increasing their collections. Various readers' advisory (RA) librarians share their expertise by authoring individual chapters, each providing a genre description and a discussion of its audience appeal. The authors suggest librarians serving adult patrons may not be familiar with teen titles, while librarians dealing with teens may be less knowledgable of adult titles. This resource attempts to bridge this gap in RA service. The first half of the book focuses on promoting adult books to YA readers, while the second half discusses YA books of interest to adults. Contributors identify resources to assist with RA and collection development. Chapters end with a brief description of subgenres and a list of representative titles with summaries. For teens, the authors consider mystery and detection, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, nonfiction, romance, and new adult. For adults, they delve into thrillers, suspense and adventure, sci-fi, fantasy, romance and chick lit, mainstream literature, nonfiction, and graphic novels. VERDICT RA veterans will not find much unfamiliar information here, but librarians new to RA will discover a basic guide to broaden their knowledge.—Lydia Olszak, Bosler Memorial Library, Carlisle, PA

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440838461
• ISBN 13: 9781440838460
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Moyer Jessica E.