Readers’ advisory - keeping up with what's hot - Eric Dodson
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This was presented as part of the 2016 NSW public library readers’ advisory seminar 23 March 2016.
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Editor's Notes
- Welcome to our short session on keeping up with what’s hot with new titles in publishing! As many people find themselves time poor at work and with a constant stream of new titles being published it is a challenge to keep in touch with recent publications.
- The Readers’ Advisory Group maintain a wiki which we encourage people to interact with and you may also apply to become a contributor. The RA working group contacts are available on the wiki. So, on the wiki menu under “Tools & Websites” we have a page called “Keeping up with what’s hot” which has a number of resources to help with staying abreast of news and reviews in the publishing world. They are presented as resources which may be used as daily, monthly and yearly so there are a range of options for all you busy people!
- Early Word is a US site which is updated daily. On Fridays they have a “new title radar” post which previews the following weeks title releases and covers popular authors as well as likely “word of mouth” or sleeper titles which my gain popularity over time. They also have a books to movies alert and you can subscribe to a weekly newsletter or follow through social media.
- Some recommended sites for weekly newsletters include: LoveReading which is an independent British based resource with monthly subscription newsletters tailored to your favourite genres or catagories. All books are reviewed by their editorial panel with about 50 titles per month selected, as well as reader reviews and ratings.
- The Bookhouse is an Australian supplier which provides a weekly newsletter which varies in focus across genres and catagories. Their “Books in the news” update is a great way to catch up with titles mentioned and reviewed in a range of newspapers.
- For more irregular monitoring we have a few recommendations starting with: Good Reading magazine which will be familiar to many as it is widely subscribed to by libraries in both print and online forms. The online version has a keyword search and is archived back to 2001. Short star rated reviews make it an easily accessible resource.
- NoveList is another popular name with a monthly subscription newsletter and an archive or previous editions.
- Everybody’s favourite site, GoodReads, is a great place to review the best books of the year, as voted by the reading community of the site. There is an overall best voted list as well as a series of genre and category lists.
- Even if you don't want to post to Twitter, this is a quick and easy way to stay up to date with bookish news. The wiki has a list of suggested people and organisations to follow for a range of industry and readers’ advisory news. Mention Twitter Reading Group??? Suggestions from the audience???