StubbsBlogger 2013 Diploma Customer Service Blog: August 2013

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Genres, Titles, Authors, and Reading Advising.

Children’s Fiction:
                1. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, 1970.
                2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1997
                3. Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White, 1952

Fiction tales:
                1. The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien, 1937
                2. Aquainted With the Night, Christopher Dewdney, 2004
                3. Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Veliovsky, 1950

Young Adult Fiction:
                1. The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud, 2003
                2. Survive, Alex Morel, 2012
                3. The Hunger Games, Susanne Collins, 2008

Drama:
                1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, 2000
                2. The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger, 2003
                3. Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr., 1978

Crime/Detective
                1. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894
                2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, 2003
                3. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1868

Well respected scholarly books:
                1. Selected Poems (Hardcover), Emily Dickinson, 1890
                2. Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback), Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
                3. Wuthering Heights (Paperback), Emily Bronte, 1847

Reader’s Advisor Job Description (reasonably current)

A: http://www.bookbitch.com/READERS%20ADVISORY.htm

D: Outlines basic requirements of position of reader’s advisor, goes into detail concerning the optimal strategy to serve patron needs, and above all, awesome name.

Reader’s Advisor Discussion:

http://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/9342/

http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Readers_Advisory_Service_in_the_Public_L.htmlid=kFGjpQXEJb4C&redir_esc=y

http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/2013/promotion-literature-27-march
Webpage promotes Australian government efforts to promote awareness and appreciation of Australian creative writing.

http://www.austlit.edu.au/
Website provides open source information on Australian literature, print and narrative culture.

http://wheelercentre.com/events/program/australian-literature-101/
Webpage gives information on Australian literature troubles and website’s plans to counteract troubles.

http://www.nla.gov.au/research-guides/finding-australian-literature
Webpage gives catalogue on Australian literature.

http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_english/events_and_seminars/australian_literature_the_road_ahead_2013_conference/
Webpage gives information on Australian literature conference.

http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/artforms/literature
Webpage gives information on Australian government efforts to promote Australian literature.

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/English/Literature
Webpage gives information on efforts to incorporate Australian literature into Australian curriculum.

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Static/docs/senior%20secondary/Literature%20Glossary.pdf
PDF file gives glossary on Australian literature curriculum.

http://www.readplus.com.au/download/SampleLiteraturetosupporttheAustralianCurriculum.pdf
PDF file gives information on support of Australian literature.

http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/lit.html

Webpage promotes Australian authors by giving list of authors not world-known.

http://www.nla.gov.au/event/5445

Webpage gives information on Australian literature seminar.

http://asaliterature.com/

Webpage gives up-to-date blog entries based on Australian literature.

http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/ozlit.html

Webpage gives online catalogue on Australian literature.

http://gutenberg.net.au/austgreatest.html

Webpage gives list on Australian authors and their noted works.