Readers' Advisory: RA School: Learning from ILS Faculty

Abstract

Building upon our “eavesdropping” columns that invite groups of advisors to gather via email and discuss practice, philosophy, and methods, this issue invites us all back to school. Here four ILS faculty gather to consider the key principles of Readers’ Advisory (RA) and their philosophy of RA service. They also answer why RA is not taught more broadly and they, of course, have a book to share. Most centrally, in this wide-ranging conversation, their passion for the service and the importance they place upon the activity of reading shines through.—Editors