Week 9: Assignment 1 and 2

After reading the two articles and watching the videos from the New York Times and You Tube, I feel book trailers are a very effective tool in marketing books. I think that young adults in particular and some adults are more influenced by a moving visual picture, with the enhancements of sound and color - more so than the written word. Book trailers provide a motivation to read the books they promote and a context for imagining the story of the book in our minds as we are reading it.

Week 9: Assignment 3:

Overall, I have found this online learning program to be a very worthwhile experience. At times the questions were somewhat repetititve and the assignments with multiple parts, overly long. In spite of these minor flaws, I feel that the team that created this program did a thorough job in providing an intellecutally stimulating learning experience. Most importantly,  I now have a plethora of resources to use in initiating a enthusiastic reader's advisory interaction with customers. I have noticed a greater comfort level and more confidence in asking the right questions to keep the flow of conversation going until the perfect book for the customer is discovered. This process can be a fun collaboration beween librarians and customers. Hopefully, if we keep reaching out to our customers they will find the opportunity to relate to a friendly staff about literature as engaging as reading the next good book.