LSSL 5385 Chapter 19 Review

Ch. 19

Chapter nineteen of the LSSL 5385 textbook comes is in the form of an article taken from the
website perspectivesonreading.com.  This article discusses how to find a “good” book and how
to help others. The term used in this article is a ‘readers advisor.’ It is defined as being “a library
term for somebody who can help a reader find a book that person would like to read.” There are
face-to face techniques and face-to-group techniques to this position. In face-to-face interactions
, the reading advisor will ask the reader to tell them about something they like to read, or don’t like
to read. In face-to-group interactions, the reading advisor will usually have some kind of
presentation of a book and present that to a group of people. There are also indirect reading
techniques such as displays, lists, and websites. Generally this is where readers can gather
information on their own about a book, without the reading advisor directly giving them the
information.