Booklist Online has made the fun RA fortune tellers usually only available at conferences available for every library to download and use for free!
They are organized by genre, and the link goes to 7 examples with folding directions, ready to print. Use the templates to make more of your own.
Fortune tellers are a fun interactive RA activity, especially for those titles with long holds queues because for those titles, this allows your readers to feel like they are "doing something" while they wait. Don't underestimate how much more fun and interactive a fortune teller is for them to identify their next read than using a "While You Wait" list-- EVEN WHEN THE TITLES THEY ARE CHOOSING FROM ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.
Yes you can take that "While You Wait" title list and put them into a fortune teller and I promise you, people will be less cranky about waiting.
You can do these with your patrons or leave them out near displays, while you wait lists, or at your desks for them to do alone. They are cheap to recreate so if they "walk off," no big deal.
You also still have time to make some of your own for you Summer Reading Programs as well (using the Booklist templates). Consider not just fortune tellers for choosing a title to fit your themes, but also, to have people choose an activity (for those of you who do that as well).
Click here for the templates. And thank to Booklist for sharing their conference booth fun with everyone.
Download Booklist's Readers' Advisory Fortune Tellers
Dog Man, Freida McFadden, Stephen Graham Jones--your patrons love these big authors and series, but what should they read while they are waiting for the newest Sarah J. Maas to hit the shelves (or, more realistically, when they are number 98 on that holds list?) Could there be a way to select a book club pick that leaves the final choice up to fate? And where the heck do you start with tween readers?
We have the answer with our handy readers' advisory fortune tellers! With youth and adult picks, you can find everything from Biography/Memoir recommendations to YA Eco-Horror.
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