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Rethinking Readers' Advisory:
An Interactive Approach
90-minute workshop with Rebecca Howard
and Laura Raphael

Wednesday, August 7
2:30pm Eastern|1:30 Central
12:30 Mountain|11:30am Pacific

This workshop will present an overview of form-based Readers' Advisory—what it is, its benefits, its key elements, and considerations for librarians who wish to implement it. You'll learn how to implement form-based RA from start (getting administrative and staff buy-in) to finish (building forms and training staff members).

Workshop topics include:

• The current state of Readers' Advisory services and what form-based RA is
• Making the case to your library leaders
• Crafting forms, and how to assemble and train your form-based RA team

Rebecca Howard is a Readers' Librarian and coordinates "Your Next Great Read". She is a regular contributor to the blog Reading Addict, and develops and supports Readers' Library programming. An ALA member, she also belongs to the Social Responsibilities Roundtable and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Roundtable.

Laura Raphael worked at the Tulsa City-County Library in a variety of jobs including Associate Volunteer Coordinator before becoming Associate Librarian in the Readers' Library department of the Central Library, a position she has held since 2006. She has an M.A. in English Literature from Northeastern State University.

Also of interest

Readers' Advisory Bundle
A specially priced collection of RA expertise

Facebook in the Library: Enhancing Services and Engaging Users
90-minute workshop with David Lee King
Wednesday, July 17

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Introducing RDA
90-minute workshop
with Chris Oliver

Thursday, June 13, 2013
2:30pm Eastern|1:30 Central
12:30 Mountain|11:30am Pacific

In this workshop, Oliver will give an overview of RDA and look at key differences between RDA and AACR2. The workshop will provide background for catalogers before they begin RDA training, and will also serve as a refresher for those wanting to increase their understanding of RDA—especially important given the recent implementation of RDA by the Library of Congress and the British Library. 

Workshop topics will include:

• Organization of RDA and its key attributes
• Similarities and differences between RDA and AACR2
• Improving resource description and resource discovery

Chris Oliver is the author of the best-selling book Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics. She has worked at the McGill University Library since 1989 as a cataloguing manager and librarian. She is the Chair of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing and has been a member of the Committee since 1997 and has been involved with the evolution of RDA from its beginning.

Also of interest

Introducing RDA
Book bundle
Chris Oliver, Karen Coyle

RDA Toolkit 
The most effective way to interact with
the new standard