Advisory Services
Adult Services Staff are trained to assist you with all your reading needs. We’re also happy to make music and audiovisual suggestions.
You can talk to us in person by visiting our help desks on level 2 (fiction and audiovisual) and level 4 (nonfiction and reference), or ask the Librarian, Jill Griffith, at the Dawe Branch. We also provide telephone assistance:
Fiction and Audiovisual 403-342-9110
Nonfiction and Reference 403-346-2100
If you are doing online research and need assistance contact us through Ask a Question
May We Suggest...? is an advisory service for RDPL Members. Please follow the link below for the Shelf Help form. Library staff will develop a personal reading list for you based on the information you provide. Your list will take approximately three weeks to complete and we will call or email you when it is ready.
May We Suggest...? Online Form
Recommended reading lists and website links are regularly prepared and updated. The following are some of our most popular advisory lists and websites:
Readers' Advisory Links- American Library Association
- Book Browse
- Common Sense Media
- Complete Review
- Contemporary Christian Fiction
- Genrefluent
- Giller Prize
- Gnooks - Welcome to the World of Literature - your online reader's advisory tool
- Governor General's Literary Awards
- Morton Grove Webrary
- New York Review of Books
- Oprah's Book Club
- Reader's Advice
- Readers Advisor Online
- Read-a-likes from Boone County Public Library
- Spark Notes Study Guides
- What's Next: Books in Series from Kent District Library
- Whichbook.net
Virtual Libraries in Foreign Languages/International Collection