Week 9 Assignment 3

Summarize your thoughts about this program in a blog post.  What have you learned that was helpful?

Having completed this training I do I feel more competent and knowledgeable!  How so?  I am certainly more familiar with reader’s advisory tools and my reference interview skills are sharper.  What else?  Appeal factor terms - always use them when providing readers advisory!  Apply them to the books I read & listen to in order to better be able to recommend them to others.  Goodreads.com - keep logging books on my goodreads.com account!  Add more book shelves when necessary for efficiency.  Work pockets of time into my schedule to read Earlyword’s newletter & other helpful sites.  Subgenres are evolving, expanding, and crossing over.  Having said that, use genre specific websites more frequently!  Lastly, offer customers nonfiction read alike book options for fiction and fiction read alike book options for nonfiction.