Notes from CAL Readers’ Advisory Interest Group Meeting (RAIG)
February 20, 2008, 11-2
Castlewood Library, ALD
 
Attendees
Arapahoe Library District: Alice Kober (chair), Susan Ciazza, May Lee, Michelle Shields
Art Institute of Colorado: Susan Osborn
Aurora: Juanita Alseike, Christine Curran
Berthoud: Dulcie Brown, Sara Wright
Boulder Public Library: Beth Armstrong, Laurel Seppela-Etra
CLiC: Lisa Priebe, Shannon O’Grady
Consultant: Dodie Ownes
Douglas County: Jill Kidder, Becky Spilver, Dedra Anderson
Elizabeth: Irene Marshall
Lafayette: Bernice Hicks, Patty Frobisher
Rangeview: Katharine Phenix
Westminster: Mary Jones, Jean Ward
 
(Apologies if we missed anyone’s name. We had a great turnout for the meeting.)
 
CAL Conference Update (Dodie Ownes)
  • Conference is Nov 6-8, at the Marriott Tech Center in Denver. Light rail available.
  • Preconfs on Nov 6 (Thu), Fri & Sat Nov 7-8 for workshops and exhibits.
  • Program proposal announcement coming out soon – deadline will be around mid-May to submit programs.
  • Theme is Communities and Libraries. If proposing a program, try to tie it to the theme.
 
CAL PreConference Proposal/idea ( Dodie Ownes)
  • Jo Sarling, CAL Conference Chair, wants RAIG to help in putting together a nonfiction RA preconference.
  • Dodie is trying to get Neal Wyatt or Joyce Saricks to come, maybe Duncan Smith from NoveList since EBSCO is about to introduce NoveList Plus, which includes nonfiction.
  • Dodie will also will be talking to publishers at PLA to participate in a nonfiction RA Hot Picks session like last year, where the publishers presented their Spring/Summer lists. Local publisher to consider would be Fulcrum. This was very popular last year. 
  • Idea for CAL program – One Book One Community program.
 
Discussion: What do libraries use for recommending videos and music? Are there "view-alike" or "listen-alike" resources?
  •   Tons of listen-alike resources out there already
  •    Is there RA demand for music? No, not really.
  •  For audiobooks the narrator is key, but is part of the catalog.
  •  Music/dvd is less of an investment, so is easier to keep or return.
  •  What about screening of movies? “Mom’s Review” is a source
  •  Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is a good source for movie reviews, actors’ bios, lists of movies they’ve appeared in, etc.
    Search on actor’s or directors names as “authors” in catalog to find movies they appeared in/directed.

Movies are actor-driven. Selection is patron-driven. There are print resources that are useful.

 
CLiC: Questions about CLiC from the RA group-- from Lisa Priebe
§         CliC is the organization in CO that handles the courier service, and connects libraries through continuing education, collaboration, etc …
§         LEO (Library Education Opportunities) is an online leo.clicweb.org source for continuing education in the state.
§         Cooperative purchasing is part of the service, databases, training, consulting and communications.
§         CLiC is interested in being part of CAL interest groups to find out what the needs of the library community are so they can service them better.
§         CLiC did a symposium to discuss national courier issues 2 years ago, and discovered that they needed to make changes to courier service in order to sustain cost/service level. Improved processes came of this, and there will be a second “Moving Mountains” symposium later this summer in Cincinnati.
§         Although CLiC offers supervisory training classes, these are mostly hosted by Mountain States Employees. Not many done in Denver area – need is in the more rural areas.
§         Question about database packaging– what is the difference between working with AIRS, BCR and CLiC?
–        AIRS provides statewide purchase of some databases for some libraries; they are trying to make this available to ALL libraries.
–        Hope is on the horizon that Colorado will soon take up some statewide purchasing – this depends on getting sustainable funding. There are some K-12 packages, but most of the databases have a more general appeal.
–        CliC and BCR both provide discounting for specific databases; BCR is active in 11 states, with lots of databases. CLiC gathers libraries together for specific products, and can get a deeper discount. Currently have 5 databases, but will be going up to 13, primarily for academic libraries. Different ways of leveraging buying power.
–        CLiC will also will be offering an EBSCO Do It Yourself database package for public libraries.
§         CliC is moving to East Arapahoe in April 10-11. There is a training/conference room that can be made available to groups for meetings.
§         Question from Lisa: Should notices on databases, trials, et al go on to LibNet? Yes– rank and file need to have input, they are the influencers.
 
Discussion on Economic Gardening
§         Christine Hamilton-Pennell worked for city of Littleton for Chris Gibbons. She is now consulting on economic gardening with many library districts.
§         Economic Gardening is a research-based way to grow small businesses.
§         Often sponsored by local chambers of commerce or other local government to grow local business--instead of doing microcredit, give them information.
§         The business databases cost $50,000+, so there are some joint ventures between libraries and chambers of commerce.
§         Could people partner with academics and businesses for database access? Lots of possibilities. Would be a good CAL program.
 
RA Training Workshop
In May, we’ll hold an all-day reader's advisory training session through CAL Continuing Education.  We've reserved an excellent meeting space, the Community Room at the Aurora Central Library, for Wednesday, May 28th. 
§         Cost: The workshop will be $50 for CAL members, $80 for non-members. This includes all materials, a continental breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack.
§         Suggestions for topics for workshop:
-          Trends, Troubles (RA Roadblocks) and Hot Tamales (Hot Picks) – Dedra Anderson and other trainers from Douglas County will give this presentation—sure to be a highlight of the workshop
-          Booktalking in the stacks, booktalking for pages/material handlers, 3-minute book talk
-          How to mentor person new to RA
-          Trendspotting—what’s hot, what’s not? (Is vampire fiction dying or undead? Chick lit appears to be dying market—what’s replacing it?)
-          Trends in mystery
-          Trends in thrillers and suspense
-          Paranormal romance and mystery.  
-          Cross-genre trends in fiction.  For example: “Viking Navy Seal time-travel romance”
-          Erotica strong in marketplace. Harlequin now has Blaze and Spice imprints that even include S&M type romance.
-          Inspirational/Christian fiction (Jean Ward is knowledgeable about this)
-          Gentle romance that isn’t inspirational—not “hot”
-          Lots of interest in memoirs these days, even pets
 
 
Statewide Adult Summer Reading Program for 2009
§         Colorado created a very popular state-wide summer reading programs for adults in 2004, 2005 and 2006.  CAL is interested in starting this program again. Becky Spilver (Douglas County) and Jean Ward (Westminster) ran this program in the past. They coordinated ideas and did cooperative purchasing for materials. The major benefit was for the small libraries and jails that could never do that on their own. Provided templates, reading lists. There is some remaining money from the state to help fund the program.
§         Sara Wright (directorbpl@gmail.com) from Berthoud has volunteered to chair this program. During her career, she has worked at libraries of all sizes and did a children’s program for ALA. Sara will coordinate with CAL and the Colorado State Library to create a program to be offered in the summer of 2009. Thanks for volunteering, Sara!
§         Katharine Phenix will be on the committee. There is a Yahoo Group for the summer reading program that Becky Spilver will revive. There are several other members of CAL RAIG who are willing to volunteer for various jobs on the project. 
§         Paul Gonzales of Jeffco is an excellent graphic artist who did their summer reading artwork last year.
§         California has great ideas for adult summer programs
 
 
Adult Summer Reading Programs for 2008
  • Topics:
    • Beth: Boulder is doing – genre reading challenge;
    • Mary Jones: Word of Mouth – will be getting reviews/suggestions from celebrities;
    • Lafayette : doesn’t have theme yet, but will be doing Adult;
    • Rangeview is doing “Pollinate your Mind” for Adult Reading – classics, June is National Pollination Month!
 
  • Mary Jones: Westminster is hosting a reading program registration/book list service for patrons; can track summer reading, logs prizes, etc. The program can be branded for your library, basically providing software as a service to other libraries.  Eric Sisler from Westminster modified the program. To use it, you only need to submit configuration file. Contact Westminster for more information.
 
  • There was a request to post summer reading programs on the RAIG wiki (see below for wiki web address and instructions) Katharine Phenix will create a place for people to put information on their Summer reading programs. To contact Katharine – kphenix@rangeview.org
 
CoRAIG Wiki:
  • Discussed how to add and revise items on our readers' advisory wiki, called CoRaZone (Colorado Readers' Advisory Zone):
  • Go to http://c-rad.pbwiki.com/ . 
  • You’ll be asked to create a login with your name and email address.
  •  The password is “readers”.

    There are two ways to edit the page:

    1) Using the very friendly “Point-and-Click” mode that looks just like a page of text, and

    2) Using the Classic mode which shows the html code (harder to use)

    In the upper right corner of the page, you can click to switch between Classic mode and Point-and-Click mode.

  • Crash course in pbwiki is at the bottom of the page.
  • Lots of different resources available, links to authors, publishers, etc
  • Book Organization of Colorado is a good spot, a listing for book events around the state, also authors who will come to libraries
 
Spring Workshop:
  • Wednesday, May 28, full-day workshop (see above)
 
Other 2008 Meetings
  • Wednesday, August 12, 2008, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Koelbel Library
  • CAL Conference meeting—date not yet determined
 

 


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