New Books

• Inside, Outside, and Online: Building Your Library Community by Chrystie Hill

FYI: "Inside, Outside, and Online: Building Your Library Community provides practical advice and inspiration for building community with your library. Based on a scan of the community and technology environments within which libraries operate, related literature, and the practical experiences of hundreds of library staff actively building communities through their work, the book provides much needed insights into the essential elements of community building through
-Identifying user needs and designing services to meet those needs
-Engaging communities with service selection, creation, and iteration
-Utilizing practical new technologies..." - from the back cover

• The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (2nd ed.) by Joyce Saricks

FYI: "This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format. Expert readers' advisor Joyce Saricks offers groundbreaking reconsideration of the connections among genres, providing
-Key authors and themes within fifteen genres
-The elements of fiction most likely to entice readers
-An explanation of how the different genres overlap

Provocative and spirited, The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, second edition, offers hands-on strategies for librarians who want to become experts at figuring out what their readers are seeking and how to match books with those interests." - from the back cover