LSSC Elective Competencies: Adult Readers’ Advisory Services

$375.00

Dates: November 3 - December 14

Credits: 2.25 CEUs or 22.5 PDHs

A six week online course on readers’ advisory services, designed to meet the elective requirement for the Library Support Staff Certification program. Topics covered include: introduction RA and the RA interview, advisory services for non print materials, social media and RA, programming, working with teens, diverse reading and populations and introduction to the genres of science fiction, fantasy, romance, crime and nonfiction.

Course Information

Session

Credits

2.25 CEUs or 22.5 PDHs

Registration dates

We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment.

Course Description

A six week online course on readers’ advisory services, designed to meet the elective requirement for the Library Support Staff Certification program. Topics covered include: introduction RA and the RA interview, advisory services for non print materials, social media and RA, programming, working with teens, diverse reading and populations and introduction to the genres of science fiction, fantasy, romance, crime and nonfiction. At the end of the course students will be prepared to provide basic RA services in a public library setting. Students will complete a 10 item, annotated, readalike list, that will require in depth analysis of one title and finding and annotating 10 additional titles (in any format).

Sam Molzahn

Sam Molzahn is the Adult Reference and Technology Librarian at the Franklin Public Library (WI) and earned his MLIS from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Passionate about media literacy, he has taught continuing education courses on "Fake News" for the University of Wisconsin-Madison iSchool and presented webinars on misinformation and media literacy.

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Special Session

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