...E.E. Lawrence; Virginia Sharpe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine how we ought to distinguish between reference and readers' advisory (RA) service, given the latter’s turn toward a whole collection approach. In other words, the paper answers this question: If both reference and RA...

...; the functional image; the humanistic image; and the ideological image of the library – and is accompanied by detailed definitions of each. Canada Hermeneutic phenomenology Image of the library Immigration Migration Public libraries Readers' advisory Reading experience librarianship United States...

... in all types of libraries, this article makes a case for replacing the term “readers' advisory” with the term “Reading Experience (RE) librarianship” as a designator of the current professional practice. Design/methodology/approach Using historical and discursive analysis based on the extensive...

...E.E. Lawrence Purpose Contemporary adult readers' advisory aims to adhere to (what I term) a pure preference satisfaction model in which librarians provide nonjudgmental book recommendations that satisfy their patrons' aesthetic tastes rather than improve upon them. The purpose of this paper...