Library Trends 75(2), November 2026, "Rethinking Readers’ Advisory for Today’s Reading Reality."

Library Trends 75(2), November 2026, "Rethinking Readers’ Advisory for Today’s Reading Reality." 

This page serves as an easy way for readers of this blog to pull up this entire issue. Guest edited by Robin Bradford and me.It is open source and free for any and all to read at this link. However, I have also included the links to the individual articles below.

Before we get to the articles, I want to take a second for all of us who do Collection Development and Readers' Advisory to acknowledge this very important moment. Our work giving people leisure reading options has been relegated into the shadows of the academic realm for years. And I say this as someone who taught the RA class at the graduate level for 8 years. But here we are, today, with a well regarded academic library journal handing over the keys to an entire issue to Robin and I, allowing us to make a call for papers, and craft a journal all about the work every one of you reading this does every single day.

We will also have 2 webinars highlighting some of our authors coming in February 2027. One through the University of IL iSchool and the other with Booklist. I will post those links here when available.

Now here is the access to the individual issues:

Rethinking Readers’ Advisory for Today’s Reading Reality: An Introduction

Robin Bradford, Becky Spratford

pp. 225-237

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005541

Stress Versus Libraries

Avery Alexander, Rebecca Reeves

pp. 238-266

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005542

Cultivating a Critical Disposition in Readers’ Advisory Pedagogy and Practice

Emil Lawrence, Misha Stone

pp. 267-288

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005543

Actively Professional Readers’ Advisory Training: Ethics, Representation, and Online Discussion

Michael Adams, Catherine Bryant, Abby Dawson, Ellen Forsyth

pp. 289-308

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005544

Weeding for a Readers’ Advisory Collection

Karen Toonen

pp. 309-332

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005545

Participatory Readers’ Advisory for Youth: or, The Children Need Participation, Not Protection

Julie Jurgens

pp. 333-348

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005546

Readers’ Advisory in the High School Library

Raenell “Rain” M. Smith, Michele Reilly

pp. 349-364

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005547

Reading Together: How Campus Book Clubs Transform Academic Library Readers’ Advisory Services

Tyler Rodrigues

pp. 365-386

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005548

Reimagining Readers’ Advisory in an Academic Library Setting

Amanda M. Lowe, Lauren Puzier

pp. 387-416

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005549

Readers’ Advisory Outside the Box: Using Emotional-Situational Appeal to Connect with Neurodivergent Readers

Carina Stopenski

pp. 417-428

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005550

Readers’ Advisory as a Tool to Foster Empathy and Build Community Support Through Queer Book Clubs

Adam Lopez

pp. 429-438

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005551

Rethinking Reader-Centric Services in Urban Rail-Transit Reading Facilities: A User-Experience Study in Zhejiang Province, China

Wang Junfei

pp. 439-454

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005552

Building Community Investment Through Readers’ Advisory Programming

Konrad Stump

pp. 455-477

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005553

Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory as a Tool for Social Justice

Stephanie Sendaula

pp. 478-485

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005554

Broader Bookshelf: Engage Leisure Readers with a Reading Challenge

Sara McBride, Chantal Wilson

pp. 486-499

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a1005555

And 1 bonus article that was unable to be added to the final issue is available here.