{"id":14955,"date":"2013-04-08T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=14955"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:16:59","slug":"downton-abbey-and-dream-questions-on-the-ref-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=14955","title":{"rendered":"Downton Abbey and Dream Questions on the Ref Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Renee Holden, Head Editor, INALJ Nebraska<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Downton Abbey and Dream Questions on the Ref Desk<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"reneeh1\"<\/a>I kid you not…I was sitting at the reference the desk the other day and a patron came up to me and said with a copy of Downton Abbey<\/i> in her hands “I love, love, love this show. I simply can’t wait until the next season.\u00a0 What books are like Downton Abbey<\/i>?”\u00a0 I proceeded to ask her a bunch of questions to try and find out what about the TV show she liked.\u00a0 At the end of the reference interview, she simply said “Wow!\u00a0 Librarians give out better recommendations than Amazon.\u00a0 Does Amazon know you are doing their job, but better?”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the patron left I started thinking about the fact that librarians have been doing reader’s advisory for a lot longer than Amazon’s Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought<\/i>…\u00a0 So I thought that I would share with everyone the top 5 read alike questions that I have received working the public library reference desk.\u00a0 The answers to these questions are not very scientific…just the most popular books based on patrons telling me how much they loved the books.<\/p>\n

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