Readers' Advisory On a Budget

Program: RA On a Budget (Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries conference, May 9-11, 2012)

For an outline of this program as a Word document, please click on this link.

Free Title Awareness

Reader's Advisor Online Run Down

EarlyWord

New York Times Bestsellers

Publishers' Weekly On-sale Calendar

Barnes and Noble Coming Soon

Library Journal Prepub Alerts

USA Today BookBuzz

The Daily Beast

Blogging for a Good Book

Morton Grove Public Library Reader's Corner

Free (and useful) Tech Tools for RA

For document sharing:

Google Docs (https://docs.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0&pli=1#home)

PBwiki (https://plans.pbworks.com/signup/basic20)

OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/why/)--particularly if you can't afford PowerPoint

For marketing:

Blogger (blog software): http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41345&topic=10424&ctx=topic

WordPress (blog software): http://wordpress.com/

10 free blog softwares: http://topsitesblog.com/blog-websites/

Tumblr (micro-blogging): https://www.tumblr.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ (you can always do an institutional "page")

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/

Book cataloging: GoodReads (http://www.goodreads.com/); Shelfari (http://www.shelfari.com/)

For communication/sharing:

Skype: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home

Looking for Ideas?

Pinterest is a Valuable Tool for Your Library

Blogging for a Good Book (award-winning book blog using free software)

Book Menage (online book club)

Put Your Teens to Work

Top 5 Handouts

RA and Marketing; Practical Marketing for Public Libraries

Berwyn Public Library Reading Maps

Social Reading

Session Handouts from PLA 2012