Following on an earlier post Neal Wyatt’s recent article in LJ prompted me to think of Reader Advisory services (RA) as a way to facilitate collective reading…
“Library 2.0 applied to RA means that our core service—fostering connections and discussions about items in our collections—can be enhanced and adapted by social technology. Library 2.0 tools play to the strengths of RA work and can deepen and broaden the interaction, introduce new ways of connecting books to other items, and enable librarians to enlist the entire community of readers in the collaborative creation of RA services for everyone. This is happening most quickly through a revisioning of what annotations are, where they exist, and who creates and uses them. ”
“2.0 for Readers; Online innovations reinvent how we use a classic RA tool—annotations”
by Neal Wyatt — Library Journal, 11/1/2007
Using RA could help us return to the collective reading environment described by Junot DÃaz (see my previous post).