Greetings! Are you involved in planning, providing and promoting advisory services to your community's adult readers, listeners, and viewers? Would you like to increase your comfort with responding to community member interests in locating materials that will satisfy their searches for books, audiobooks, films, and music? Are you ready to learn how to apply best practices in contemporary advisory, working with your library's collections and your community's assets and challenges? In this six-week online course you will have the opportunity to learn and practice the interviewing, evaluation, and communication skills needed to provide your local community with access to satisfying leisure reading, listening, and viewing. This online learning course starts on Tuesday August 26, 2014. Course Description: Through a variety of readings and other resources, assignments and optional activities, online discussion forums, and guided field practice, this six-week online course provides: best practices, tips and techniques, and the opportunity to put them into immediate action meeting your community's interests in reading and media discovery. In addition to becoming familiar with a variety of published tools that support excellent advisory work, you will develop your own customized aids and become ready to collaborate with other agencies in your community, and beyond. To register or for more information, please visit https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?id=417&reset=1 Evette M. Atkin Continuing Education Coordinator Library of Michigan atkine@michigan.gov<mailto:atkine@michigan.gov> 517.373.3746