Listeners‘ Advisory: Successfully Recommending Music to Teens

Authors

  • Mark Black Dalhousie University

Keywords:

youth, Canada, Libraries, Reference services (Libraries), young adult librarians

Abstract

While multimedia collections of public libraries have expanded and continue to grow; supplemental services related to these media formats have not. For example, readers‘ advisory services have become commonplace in public libraries, while listeners‘ or music advisory services are a rarity. The article examines what librarians at the Jacksonville Public Library have done to provide these services to their clients and how that can be used in Canadian public libraries.

Author Biography

Mark Black, Dalhousie University

Mark Black (MLIS Candidate, 2014) has a BA in English from Dalhousie. He has worked for the Coast, Street Cents, and the Smithsonian Channel and has been a contributor to Skyscraper Magazine and Culture.ca. He has recently published his first book, NoMeansNo - Going Nowhere (Invisible Publishing). He serves as DJIM's Editorial Co-Chair and SIMSA's VP Non-Academic.

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Published

2014-10-17