Crossover Readers' Advisory: Maximize Your Collection To Meet Reader Satisfaction

Moyer (Sch. of Information Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; a 2008 LJ Mover & Shaker) says this work will help improve a librarian's ability to assist patrons without increasing their collections. Various readers' advisory (RA) librarians share their expertise by authoring individual chapters, each providing a genre description and a discussion of its audience appeal. The authors suggest librarians serving adult patrons may not be familiar with teen titles, while librarians dealing with teens may be less knowledgable of adult titles. This resource attempts to bridge this gap in RA service. The first half of the book focuses on promoting adult books to YA readers, while the second half discusses YA books of interest to adults. Contributors identify resources to assist with RA and collection development. Chapters end with a brief description of subgenres and a list of representative titles with summaries. For teens, the authors consider mystery and detection, sf, fantasy, horror, nonfiction, romance, and new adult. For adults, they delve into thrillers, suspense and adventure, sf, fantasy, romance and chicklit, mainstream literature, nonfiction, and graphic novels.