Booklist's Shelf Care

On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Jessica Trotter of the Capital Area District Libraries (MI) about all things readers’ advisory training, from grassroots staff efforts to defining core competencies and all kinds of stuff in between. Then, Audio Editor Heather Booth gets the inside scoop on the biggest audiobook awards of the year, the Audies, from the Audio Publishers Association’s Michele Cobb. Lastly but not leastly, Susan talks to Senior Editor, Books for Youth Ronny Khuri about what he’s reading and loving. Here’s what we talked about: LibraryReads Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library, by Joyce G. Saricks. Fantastic Fiction Desperation in Death, by JD Robb In the Upper Country, by Kai Thomas Finding Me, by Viola Davis, read by the author Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, by Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam, read by Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam, and Paul Simon Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt, read by Marin Ireland an