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Readers Advisory By the Cover Laura Crossett ISLOC 2013

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How to judge books by their covers--at least well enough to help recommend books to library patrons on the fly. A pecha kucha presentation for the 2013 Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference.

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Readers AdvisoryBy the Cover

Laura CrossettISLOC 2013

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Medical Thrillers

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Legal Thrillers

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Romantic Suspense

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Christian Fiction

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Cozy Mysteries

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Fantasy

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Science Fiction

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Literary Fiction(one trend)

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Mashups(and other stuff)

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Thanks!

Science fiction writer Jim Hines has many more cover pose spoofs on his blog at

http://www.jimchines.com/blog/. He kindly gave permission to use this image.

This presentation and more links live at http://newrambler.net/lisdom/isloc2013.