E-PROFILE LIBRARY DATABASE ADVISORS - EMERGING INNOVATIVE AUGMENTED DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES

摘要

A readers' advisory service has been defined as "a patron-oriented library service for adult fiction readers" (Saricks and Brown, 1997, p. 1). While there were precursors (Boone, 1996; Green, 1876), readers' advisory services initially flourished in the twentieth century in the USA in the 1920s through the 1940s (Saricks and Brown, 1997, p. 3). In his study of continuing education and the US public library, Robert Ellis Lee describes three phases of reader guidance, or readers' advisory service, between 1922 and 1940 (Lee, 1966; Saricks and Brown, 1997, pp. 3-6).