Rewarding Reading Training Courses
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What can a public library do that is more important than promoting reading?
Whether for information or recreation, reading is the heart of library service. Why not emphasise its value?
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REWARDING READING: do you have any more books like this? is an affordable, enjoyable, intensive,
experiential train-the-trainer workshop for readers’ advisers keen to raise their readers’ expectations of what a great library can deliver.
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This practical course will equip participants to share their readers advisory knowledge with their work colleagues and assist them in
the delivery of reader development programs. It combines material on how to provide guidance to readers with exercises and tips for trainers. Pre-course
reading is provided and some pre-course preparation is expected of participants. Numbers in each workshop are usually limited to around 12 participants because of the style of teaching and the participative nature of the course. All participants receive a comprehensive Workbook including detailed Trainer's Notes.
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Background to readers' advisory and reader development work in public libraries
The value of reading for both readers and libraries
Communicating with readers – appeal characteristics
Sharing the unique experience of reading - personal benefits of reading
Advising readers – listening and being heard
Conversations with readers – case studies
Readers' advisers' tips and tactics
Print and online information sources, tools and techniques
Promoting new skills and freshening library messages.
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Here is the one-page brochure. |
Rewarding Reading was developed by Libraries Alive! Pty Ltd for the NSW Country Public Libraries’ Association South East Zone and the State Library of NSW, with funding from the State Library of NSW. The course is delivered by Sherrey Quinn and Ian McCallum of Libraries Alive! under licence from the Library Council of NSW.
The objectives and content of the course have been assessed by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) in the context of its Continuing Professional Development (PD) scheme. ALIA members who are enrolled in the PD scheme and complete this Rewarding Reading course will accrue substantial PD points.
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Courses are scheduled in 2009 for Sydney, and Auckland, Upper Hutt and Tauranga in New Zealand. A series of half-day refresher sessions is planned.
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Since June 2005, the Rewarding Reading workshop has been presented in Sydney (many times), Canberra, Melbourne, Kerang Vic, Leeton NSW, Parkes NSW, Armidale NSW, Redland Shire
Qld, Gold Coast Qld, Yeppoon Qld, Adelaide and Port Augusta SA, Perth WA, and in New Zealand (Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin).
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If you are interested in us running a Rewarding Reading workshop in your region, please contact us for course outline, cost
and registration details. Call Ian or Sherrey on 02 6257 9177 or mailto:email us
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We also maintain a select list of Australian and New Zealand resources for readers' advisers.
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