CAL Preconference Nonfiction Readers Advisory: Best Practices, Tools, Resources and Whats Hot


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CAL PreconferenceNonfiction Readers
AdvisoryBest Practices Tools Resourcesand
Whats Hot!

• Presenter Duncan Smith NoveList
• Thursday November 6 2008

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States of being with readers

• Organizer
• Locator
• Identifier
• Advisor
• Counselor

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Tell me about a book youve read and enjoyed.
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What fiction readers talk about

• Character
• Genre/plot/action
• Setting
• Time
• Place
• Subject/Topic
• Affect

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What nonfiction readers talk about

• Narrative
• Subject
• Type (Genre)
• Characterization
• Story Line
• Detail
• Learning/Experience
• Setting

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Four Queens The Provençal Sisters who Ruled
EuropebyNancy GoldstonePublisher VikingPub
Date 4/19/2007ISBN 9780670038435ISBN-10
0670038431
Traces the lives of the four daughters of the
count of Provence who eventually became the
queens of France England Germany and Sicily.
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Daughter of Destiny An Autobiographyby Benazir
BhuttoPublisher HarperPerennialPub Date
4/15/2008ISBN 9780061672682ISBN-10 0061672688
Presents the life of the former prime minister of
Pakistan from growing up in a wealthy and
influential Pakistani family through her years
as a political prisoner and an exile to her
return to Pakistan and rise to political power.
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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh A Woman in World
HistorybyLinda ColleyPublisher Pantheon
BooksPub Date 9/4/2007ISBN 9780375421532ISBN-
10 037542153X
Presents a portrait of one of the eighteenth
centurys most remarkable women Elizabeth Marsh
a Jamaica-born explorer adventurer and writer
detailing her world travels her personal
relationships and her exploits in light of the
dramatic changes of the period.
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Bloody Mary byCarolly EricksonPublisher St.
Martins GriffinPub Date 9/1/1998ISBN
9780312187064ISBN-10 0312187068
A portrait of the much vilified daughter of Henry
VIII reveals a gifted personality who skillfully
maneuvered her way through a maze of treachery to
her place on the English throne.
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Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire byAmanda
ForemanPublisher St. Martins
GriffinPublisher Thorndike PressPub Date
8/1/2000ISBN 9780786226542ISBN-10 0786226544
Traces the life of the eighteenth-century British
aristocrat from her marriage to the Duke of
Devonshire to her rise in power discussing her
powerful connections political influence and
accomplishments and personal struggles.
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Indira The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
byKatherine Frank Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Co.Pub Date 1/7/2002ISBN 9780395730973ISBN-10
039573097X
A portrait of Indias third prime minister
chronicles the life and times of one of the
worlds most influential political leaders from
her youth through her rise to political power
to her assassination and its aftermath
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Marie Antoinette The Journey byAntonia Fraser
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co.Pub Date
1/7/2002ISBN 9780395730973ISBN-10 039573097X
Describes the life of Marie Antionette from her
betrothal as a fourteen-year-old girl to the
future King Louis XVI through her life in the
French court to her courage in the face of
revolutionaries who sent her to the guillotine.
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Mary Queen of Scots byAntonia Fraser
Publisher Delta Trade PaperbacksPub Date
10/1/1993ISBN 9780385311298ISBN-10 038531129X
A biography of Mary Queen of Scots captures the
essence of the impulsive and beautiful Scottish
queen who lost a throne for love and whose power
struggle with Elizabeth I of England ended with
her beheading.
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Personal History byKatharine Graham Publisher
Vintage BooksPub Date 3/1/1998ISBN
9780375701047ISBN-10 0375701044
The longtime owner of the Washington Post
recounts her experiences including how she
rebounded from her husbands suicide to command
the Post during Vietnam and Watergate.
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Napoleons Women byChristopher
HibbertPublisher W W Norton Co Inc Pub Date
1/1/2004ISBN 9780393324990ISBN-10 0393324990
Profiles the women who were the lovers of
Napoleon and whose lives reflected the political
and social upheavals of post-Revolutionary
France including Martinique Creole Josephine
Austria native Marie-Louise and Polish countess
Marie Walewska.
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Leap of Faith Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
byQueen Noor Publisher Miramax BooksPub
Date 3/9/2005ISBN 9781401359485ISBN-10
1401359485
Sharing a personal perspective on the past three
decades of world history Queen Noor talks
frankly of the many challenges of her life as
wife and partner to the monarch providing both
an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and
a moving account of their public role.
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Catherine the Great Love Sex and Power
byVirginia Rounding Publisher St. Martins
PressPub Date 1/22/2008ISBN
9780312378639ISBN-10 0312378637
A portrait of the late-eighteenth-century Russian
ruler discusses how she seized and kept the
throne in spite of her illegitimate claim and a
series of wars rebellions and plagues tracing
how she rendered Russia a major European power.
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Dragon Lady The Life and Legend of the last
Empress of China bySterling Seagrave with the
collaboration of Peggy Seagrave Publisher
Vintage BooksPub Date 9/1/1993ISBN
9780679733690ISBN-10 0679733698
Reappraises the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and
portrays a strong complex woman struggling to
keep her country from unraveling.
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Galileos Daughter A Historical Memoir of
Science Faith and Love byDava Sobel
Publisher G.K. HallPub Date 3/1/2000ISBN
9780783889542ISBN-10 0783889542
Presents a biography of the scientist through the
surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter
Maria Celeste who wrote him from the Florence
convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII byAlison Wei
Publisher Grove PressPub Date 4/1/2000ISBN
9780802136831ISBN-10 0802136834
Profiles each of Henry VIIIs six wives
describing their backgrounds personalities
relationship to the king and ultimate demise
and shows how each reflected the perceptions of
women and marriage at the time.
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NoveList Plus

• Author Read-alike Fraser mentions Weir
• Recommended Reads lists
• Feature article on Tudors
• Searches on subjects like
• Women rulers Great Britain Biography
• Women leaders biography
• History-Womens history and other NL Categories

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OCLC From Awareness to Funding

• Weak connection between usage and funding
• Perceptions of the librarian are highly related
  to support
  
• Belief that the library is transformational is
  directly related to funding support.
  

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What transformational means

• Helps you create who you are
• Makes you feel good about yourself
• Come away feeling you learned something
• Empowers you
• Helps you seek the truth
• Serves a serious purpose

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What does this mean for RA

• Belief that the library is a self-actualization
  tool is directly related to level of funding
  support.