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novazembla:

I hope that at some point in my lifetime Viewer’s Advisory will become a recognized thing and people will come to the library and ask me what they might like to watch next

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I actually really think libraries need this in their DVD section.

We did pathfinders for some of our DVD collection, especially for genres that aren’t easily searchable — Horror and Christian/Inspirational are two I remember. They don’t get used a ton, but as usual, are particularly helpful when someone asks you about a kind of material you don’t feel passionately about yourself.

(Oy with the pathfinders, right?)

Source: hypocritelecteuse

bookriot:

Genre Kryptonite: Drug Addiction Memoirs (a.k.a. Books to Get Hooked On)

I have been asked to find a patron “fun addiction books,” which is a surprisingly difficult genre to search for after exhausting the David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs.

bookriot:

What books do you recommend for a kid who loves The Hunger Games and Neil Gaiman? | Riot Recommendation

For the more HG side, I’d say things like Divergent and maybe Pandemonium, depending on if the kid is into romance yet as an eleven-year-old.

For the Gaimanesque bit, I’m currently reading The Night Circus and the tone is pretty similar. Maybe it’s too grownup? (But HG is pretty intense in terms of violence and romance, so…)

Readers, what do you recommend?

libraryjournal: queenslibrary: Sister Souljah fans will not want to miss this free opportunity to meet the famous author at Queens Library this Saturday! You in Queens this weekend? Get yourself to the library.  The prequel to this is on my urban fiction pathfinder. Also, it is really hard to get a patron to clarify names like “Sister Souljah” for your catalog search without sounding like an asshole (in my case, at least). “Is that ‘Sister’? Or ‘Sista’?,” etc.
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queenslibrary:

Sister Souljah fans will not want to miss this free opportunity to meet the famous author at Queens Library this Saturday!

You in Queens this weekend? Get yourself to the library.

 The prequel to this is on my urban fiction pathfinder. Also, it is really hard to get a patron to clarify names like “Sister Souljah” for your catalog search without sounding like an asshole (in my case, at least). “Is that ‘Sister’? Or ‘Sista’?,” etc.

Source: queenslibrary