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- Title
Booktalking for Adult Audiences.
- Authors
Trott, Barry; Baker, Jennifer
- Abstract
The article offers suggestions for librarians in presenting book talks to adult audiences. Book selection, tailoring comments to specific audiences, and determining an order of presentation are examined. The importance of knowing one's own reading habits and weaknesses as well as having a general knowledge of literature and the necessity of having read the books selected for presentation are also discussed. Tips for working with different types of adult audiences in various settings are presented and several booktalking selections are included.
- Subjects
BOOK talks; LIBRARY public services; READERS' advisory services; BOOK annotating; BOOK selection; LIBRARY users
- Publication
Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2010, Vol 49, Issue 3, p234
- ISSN
1094-9054
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5860/rusq.49n3.234