The readers' advisory guide to nonfiction / Neal Wyatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyatt, Neal.

Series:

ALA readers' advisory series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Readers' advisory services--United States.

Readers' advisory services.

Public libraries--Reference services.

United States.

Public libraries--Reference services--United States.

Public libraries.

Public libraries--United States--Book lists.

Books and reading--United States.

Books and reading.

Reading interests--United States.

Reading interests.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 318 pages : forms ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : American Library Association, 2007.

Summary:

Navigating what she calls the "extravagantly rich world of nonfiction," renowned readers' advisor Wyatt builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to compelling and increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports. For each, she explains the subject's scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and position in readers' advisory interviews.

Wyatt addresses who is reading nonfiction and why, while providing readers' advisors with the tools and language to incorporate nonfiction into discussions that point readers to what to read next. Writing from her considerable experience, she: Explains the hows and whys of offering fiction and nonfiction suggestions together, Illustrates ways to get up to speed fast in nonfiction, Shows how to lead readers to a variety of books using her read-around and reading map strategies, Provides tools for building nonfiction subject guides for the collection.

This hands-on guide includes nonfiction bibliographies, key authors, benchmark books with annotations, and core collections. It is destined to become the nonfiction bible for readers' advisory and collection development, helping librarians, library workers, and patrons select great reading from the entire library collection!

Contents:

1 A Readers' Advisory Approach to Nonfiction 1

2 Offering the Service 26

3 Food and Cooking 46

4 Science, Mathematics, and Nature Writing 60

5 Memoirs 82

6 Sports 100

7 True Crime 120

8 Travel 138

9 True Adventure 151

10 History and Historical Biography 168

11 General Nonfiction 190

12 Learning and Marketing the Collection 217

13 Whole Collection Readers' Advisory Service 230

A How to Build a Nonfiction Subject Guide 247

B A Nonfiction Reading Plan: The Ten Books from Each Subject Area to Consider Reading 254

E The Readers' Advisory Matrix 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838909361

9780838909362

OCLC:

86115340