nonfictionresources

Selected Professional Resources, Print and Electronic

 

 

 

 

Chelton, Mary K. “Readers’ Advisory 101,” Library Journal, November 1, 2003, http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA329318.html (accessed May 8, 2007).

 

May, Katherine L. “Readers’ Advisory Services,” Metro West Regional Library System Conference Handout, http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/Library/Reference/regionalreference/readers_advisory_handout.doc [excellent list of Web and Print Resources]

 

Novelist Database. “RA101 Lite.” Version 4.

 

Resnick, N. Janeen. “Reading Does Matter: Basic Readers’ Advisory Skills and Issues.” WMRLS Workshop, March 22, 2007, http://www.wmrls.org/ce/notes/ReadingDoesMatter.pps (accessed May 8, 2007).

 

Wright, David. Mark Page, Finder of Lost Books, in:  The Mystery that Wasn’t There,” Reference and User Services Quarterly, 45, No 1 (2005)

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusapubs/rusq/contents/ra/advisory.htm (accessed May 8, 2007).

 

Wyatt, Neal, “Reading Maps Remake RA,” Library Journal, November 1, 2006. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6383011.html (accessed April 17, 2007)

 

 Books

 

Ross, Catherine Sheldrick, Lynne (E. F.) McKechnie, Paulette M. Rothbauer. Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

 

Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library. 3rd ed. Chicago, Illinois: American Library Association, 2005.

 

Shearer, Kenneth D. and Robert Burgin, eds. The Readers’ Advisor’s Companion. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.

 

  

 

 

Alpert, Abby, “Incorporating Nonfiction into Readers’ Advisory Services,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 46, no. 1 (2006),

http://www.rusq.org/index.php/2006/10/03/incorporating-nonfiction-into-readers-advisory-services/ (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Burgin, Robert, “Readers’ Advisory: It’s Not Just for Fiction Any More, “ North Carolina Library Association 56^th Biennial Conference, http://www.nclaonline.org/conference/2005/Program/promote/BookLusting.html (accessed April 30, 2007).

 

Cords, Sarah Statz, “A Brave New World: Nonfiction Reader’s Advisory for the Fiction Reader,” Readers’ Advisor News, March 2006,

http://lu.com/ranews/mar2006/cords.cfm (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Etude: New Voices in Literary Nonfiction, http://etude.uoregon.edu/spring2007/

 

“An Introduction to the Adult Reading Round Table Nonfiction Leisure Interests Study.” Adult Reading Round Table,

http://www.arrtreads.org/nonfictiongenrestudy.htm (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

“Narrative Nonfiction Appeal Factors.” RUSA/CODES Readers’ Advisory Committee. June 2005,

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/codes/codessection/codescomm/codesreadadv/Appeal_Factors.doc (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. “Reading Nonfiction for Pleasure: What Motivates Readers?” Readers’ Advisor News, June 2006,

http://lu.com/ranews/jun2006/ross.cfm (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Sheller, Becky and Jean B. Anderson. “Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Readers Advisory Presentation.” WLA/MPLA Conference, October 12-15, 2005, http://www.mpla.us/documents/handouts/2005/anderson.doc (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Wyatt, Neal. “Exploring Nonfiction.” Library Journal, February 15, 2007, http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413459.html (accessed April 17, 2007).

 

 

 

Burgin, Robert, ed. Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

 

Cords, Sarah Statz. The Real Story: A Guide to Nonfiction Reading Interests. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

 

Wyatt, Neal. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Nonfiction. Chicago: American Library Association, 2007.

 

Adult Reading Round Table. Artworks, 46 (Summer, 2005) 

 

 

 

 

“Art of the Memoir,” Writers Monthly, March 19, 2006. Inkspell, Dr. Z’s Education Website, http://www.inkspell.homestead.com/memoir.html (accessed May 1, 2007).

Atlas, James, “Confessing for Voyeurs: The Age of the Literary Memoir Is Now,” New York Times Magazine, May 12, 1996, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/atlas_memoir.htm (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Brown, Mary Daniels. Review of When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography, by Jill Ker Conway. Notes in the Margin: Nonfiction Notes, http://www.notesinthemargin.org/conway.html (accessed April 15, 2007).

 

Clark, Roy Peter, “How to Fix the Memoir Genre,” USA Today, October 4, 2006, http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-04-10-forum-memoirs_x.htm

(accessed May 1, 2007).

 

Coetzee, J. M., “A Fiction of the Truth,” Sydney Morning Herald, November 27, 1999. HSC Online, http://hsc.csu.edu.au/english/advanced/representation/truth/letters/sectiontwo.html (accessed May 1, 2007).

 

Edelman, Hope. “James Frey’s 5% Rule.” The Huffington Post, January 15, 2006. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hope-edelman/freys-5-rule_b_13863.html (accessed May 9, 2007).

 

Gaines, Lisa, “Memoir Booklet Information Sheet,” read • write • think, http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=13 (accessed April 30, 2007). 

 

Lauck, Jennifer. “On Memoir,” Home Page. http://www.jenniferlauck.com/more-writing/what-is-a-memoir.php (accessed May 9, 2007).

 

Loizeaux, William, “In Memoirs, Varieties of Truth,” Christian Science Monitor, February 8, 2006, http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0208/p09s02-coop.htm (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

McLemee, Scott, “Dysfunction Junction, What’s Your Function?” Inside Higher Ed, http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/02/01/mclemee (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

“Memoir Mania,” Electric Times Union, March 6, 1999. New York State Writers Institute, http://albany.edu/writer-inst/tumemoirs.html (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Osborne, Brian D. Writing Biography & Autobiography. A & C Black, 2004. Excerpted in Writers’ Services, http://www.writersservices.com/mag/05/Writing_biog_autobiog_1.htm (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Rainer, Tristine, “Types of Autobiographic Writing,” Center for Autobiographic Studies. http://www.storyhelp.com/autotypes.html (accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Szanton, Andrew, “Three Kinds of Memoir,” Memoir Author and Collaborator, http://memoirauthor.com/3kindsofmemoir.htm (Accessed May 2, 2007).

 

Yagoda, Ben, “A Brief History of Memoir-Bashing.” Slate, March 30, 2007, http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2162995 (accessed May 1, 2007).

 

 

 

Barrington, Judith. Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2002, http://judithbarrington.com/writingthemem.html (accessed June 3, 2006; now unavailable online).

 

Conway, Jill Ker.  When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography. New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, 1999.

 

Kappel, Lawrence, ed. Autobiography. The Greenhaven Press Companion to Literary Movements and Genres. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2001

 

 

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