During her program, Kaite mentioned an upcoming training which will be provided by RUSA-CODES (Reference and User Services Association-Collection Development and Evaluation Section of the American Library Association). The training will be email based and will begin Tuesday morning, Oct 14 and run through Wednesday afternoon/evening, Oct 15th. This CODES conversation is free and open to any library staff with an interest in readers' advisory.
RA as a Technical Service
A new CODES Conversation begins October 14th and will run through the 15th.
RA does not just happen in the stacks and at the public service desk. It happens in the catalog, in collection development, and in materials processing. Join a community of over 500 librarians interested in all things RA as we discuss how to make sure that the RA service that happens behind the scenes of public service gets the attention and focus necessary to make all of RA as robust and useful as possible.
Some of the topics we will address include:
- How best to calculate, and what factors to consider in setting, holds ratios?
- Genre Headings: How (if at all) do catalogers/patrons/advisors agree to what constitutes a genre? How many headings do we want/need in an age of genre blends?
- What features of the catalog support and enrich RA?
- How can the collection development staff help the public services staff keep up with new titles and genres?
- What use are stickers on books? How do they work with genre blends?
- Should we interfile or have divided collections?
- How do we ensure the best access to paperbacks? And speaking of paperbacks has the format flipped to some degree to ebooks?
CODES Conversations are focused electronic conversations on current issues facing collection development and readers’ advisory librarians—or anyone interested in those areas. The free, moderated discussions are open to all - just subscribe to the discussion at http://lists.ala.org/sympa/
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