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Readers' advisory: give 'em what they need.

Publication: The Australian Library Journal
Publication Date: 01-NOV-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Readers' advisory: give 'em what they need.(Readers' Advisory Service in North American Public Libraries, 1870-2005: A History and Critical Analysis)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Readers' Advisory Service in North American Public Libraries, 1870-2005: A History and Critical Analysis. By Juris Dilevko and Candice F.C. Magowan. Jefferson NC: McFarland and Company, 2007. 252 pp. US$40.00 soft cover

This book is a 'critical history of readers' advisory philosophy based on interpretation and analysis of published sources'. The authors, from the University of Toronto, divide the history of North American readers' advisory into three phases: 1870-1916 ('the formative years'); 1917-1962 ('the commitment to systematic adult education'); and 1963-2005 ('the devolution into entertainment'). They examine in detail the debates and philosophies of readers' advisory work, within the context of North American library programs and wider historical events.

Some writers consider that readers' advisory was 'lost in adult services' in the period from 1940 to 1984 and has experienced a renaissance, delivering an improved service model in the period since 1984. In the 1980s the first editions of now-standard works were published: Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction (Betty Rosenberg,...

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