Nonfiction reader's advisory / edited by Robert Burgin.
Explores how readers' advisors can expand their repertoire and make better use of the library's collection by incorporating nonfiction into the readers' advisory.
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Westport, Conn. :
Libraries Unlimited,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Joyce G. Saricks
- Part I. The Case for Nonfiction
- A history of readers' advisory service in the public library / Bill Crowley
- Beyond boundaries / Kathleen de la Pena McCook
- Part II. Nonfiction Materials
- Many kinds of grafted truths : an introduction to nonfiction / David Carr
- The appeal of nonfiction : a tale of many tastes / Kenneth D. Shearer
- Hearing and seeing : the case for audiovisual materials / Michael Vollmar-Grole
- Part III. Nonfiction Readers
- Reading nonfiction for pleasure : what motivates readers? / Catherine Ross
- True stories : portraits of four nonfiction readers / Duncan Smith
- Nonfiction and young readers / Crystal Paris
- Nonfiction advisory services in the school library media center / Marcia Kochel
- Books that inspire : nonfiction for a multicultural society / Alma Dawson and Connie van Fleet
- Part IV. Practical Advice
- Readers' advisory in the real world / Stacy Alesi
- The story's the thing : narrative nonfiction for recreational reading / Vicki Novak.