Rethinking Readers’ Advisory For Today’s Reading Reality (New Issue of Library Trends; Vol. 75, No. 2)

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Library Trends, Volume 75, Number 2, November 2026
Edited by: Robin Bradford and Becky Spratford 

• Rethinking Readers’ Advisory for Today’s Reading Reality: An Introduction
  Robin Bradford; Becky Spratford (RA for All, Illinois)
• Stress Versus Libraries
  Avery Alexander (University of Maryland, College Park); Rebecca Reeves (University of Washington, MLIS 2025)
• Cultivating a Critical Disposition in Readers’ Advisory Pedagogy and Practice
  Emil Lawrence (Rutgers University); Misha Stone (University of Washington Information School)
• Actively Professional Readers’ Advisory Training: Ethics, Representation, and Online Discussion
  Michael Adams, Catherine Bryant, Abby Dawson, Ellen Forsyth (State Library of New South Wales)
• Weeding for a Readers’ Advisory Collection
  Karen Toonen (Naperville Public Library)
• Participatory Readers’ Advisory for Youth: or, The Children Need Participation, Not Protection
  Julie Jurgens
• Readers’ Advisory in the High School Library
  Raenell “Rain” M. Smith (Whiteland Community High School, Ind.); Michele Reilly (University of Arkansas Libraries)
• Reading Together: How Campus Book Clubs Transform Academic Library Readers’ Advisory Services
  Tyler Rodrigues (University of Idaho)
• Reimagining Readers’ Advisory in an Academic Library Setting
  Amanda M. Lowe (University at Albany Libraries); Lauren Puzier (University at Albany Libraries)
• Readers’ Advisory Outside the Box: Using Emotional-Situational Appeal to Connect with Neurodivergent Readers
  Carina Stopenski (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)
• Readers’ Advisory as a Tool to Foster Empathy and Build Community Support Through Queer Book Clubs
  Adam Lopez (Lawrence Public Library, Kan.)
• Rethinking Reader-Centric Services in Urban Rail-Transit Reading Facilities: A User-Experience Study in Zhejiang Province, China
  Wang Junfei (Taizhou Library, Zhejiang Province, China)
• Building Community Investment Through Readers’ Advisory Programming
  Konrad Stump (Horror Writers Association)
• Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory as a Tool for Social Justice
  Stephanie Sendaula
• Broader Bookshelf: Engage Leisure Readers with a Reading Challenge
  Sara McBride, Chantal Wilson (Richland Library)

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