Update the Book Discussion Group
by teaching people how to run their own book discussion groups.
* Teach Catalog use by demonstrating how to find materials
* Introduce reader's advisory resources/literary criticism in print and online. Make sure to include genre fiction. ( NoveList and MagillOnLiterature Plus )
* Create a multi-week class or long day that will include live discussion
practice using short stories or poems
* Provide bibliography including such books as: Nancy Pearl's Book Lust or So Many Books So Little Time by Sara Nelson
* Provide bibliography including online sources.
* Provide bibliography that includes suggested book discussion group topics such as:
State ( Florida - http://faculty.mccfl.edu/Jonesj/Flbib/Flbibindex.html )
True Crime
Women Writers
No Happy Endings
* Use the class as an opportunity for outreach. Suggest it to a Leads or business group and help them select topical business books of interest. Look at the book discussion model set up by the magazine Fast Company and consider beginning your own version. Go do a poetry discussion at an assisted living facility. Gather some single women together and help them launch a modern fiction reading group.
* Definitely do publicity on the class, explain the popularity of the book discussion group and provide reporters with a chance to write up a great feature that demonstrates the library's continuing relevancy in the community.