Jessica E. Moyer

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Books

Integrated Advisory: Breaking Through the Book Boundary to Better Serve Library Users

The Readers Advisory Handbook

Research Based Readers' Advisory

Dissertation

Title: "Teens Today Don't Read Books Anymore!" A study of differences in interest and comprehension based on reading modalities:

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Moyer, Jessica E.  Readers’ Advisory and Teen Readers.  Book ‘Em: Find it, Read it, Talk  About it. Workshop for library staff, MLIS students and faculty.  December 3, 2014

Moyer, Jessica E.  “Readers’ Advisory Services as Reference Services.” Reimaging Reference Librarianship in the 21^st Century.  David Tyckoson and John Dove, eds.  Purdue University Press: Charleston Insights on Library, Information, and Archival Sciences. November 2014. 

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “New York State of Mind”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, November/December 2014.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Maine Reading”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, September/October 2014.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Have Time, Will Travel”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, July/August 2014.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Reading Las Vegas.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, May/June 2014.

Kaspusniak, Renee and Jessica E. Moyer.  “Love in the e-book library: Where are all the romance bestsellers?” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference, Chicago, April 16-19, 2014. 

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Reading Out of This World (And Into Others).”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, March/April 2014.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “The Reading Innovation.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, January/February 2014.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Games People Read.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, November/December 2013.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “What’s New Pussycat?.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, September/October 2013.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Read, Watch, Love.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, July/August 2013.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Now Hear This.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, May/June 2013.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Laretta Henderson.  “Preparing to Teach.”  School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 9, 2013.  

Moyer, Jessica E.  “An Introduction to Readers’ Advisory.”  Nicolett Federated Library System, April 5, 2013. Presentation. Handouts (1)/(2).

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “Rockin' Reads.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, March/April 2013.

Moyer, Jessica E. and Kaite Mediatore Stover.  “The Cultural Literacy of Librarians.”  Under the Radar Column, Public Libraries, January/February 2013.

Moyer, Jessica E., Renee Kaspusniak and Jennifer Thiele.  “Have We Gotten Better?: Evaluating Readers’ Advisory Services Using A Secret Shopper Course Assignment.”  Poster, Works in Progress Poster session, Association of Library and Information Science Education Conference, January 22-25, 2013, Seattle, WA. 

Bio 

Jessica E. Moyer is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Literacy Education and MS and CAS degrees from the University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Previously Moyer has taught reference and readers' advisory courses for the LIS program at the University of St. Catherine and San Jose State and continuing education courses for the American Library Association. Moyer has published articles in Reference and User Services Quarterly, New Library World, Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacies, and the Libraries Unlimited Readers’ Advisor Newsletter, and is the author of Research-Based Readers’ Advisory (American Library Association, 2008), co-editor of The Readers Advisory Handbook (ALA Editions 2010) and editor of the Integrated Advisory Services (Library Unlimited 2010). An active member of ALA, Moyer is currently a member of the editorial boards for Reference and User Services Quarterly and Booklist’s Reference Books Bulletin, and a liaison for the Reference Services Section (RSS). She reviews fiction, audiobooks, reference books, and professional reading for Booklist and ebooks for Library Journal. Moyer regularly speaks and conducts workshops on audiobooks, ebooks and ebook readers, readers' advisory for all ages, and working with teen readers.  More information is available at jessicaemilymoyer.pbworks.com