Tailored Titles

Tailored Titles began in 2013 at the Northwest Library as part of their Innovation Plan. It involved performing in-person readers’ advisory with customers by way of a paper survey. That same year, we started conducting Tailored Titles sessions on Facebook and through the end of 2014, we had made over 150 reading recommendations over the course of 9 online sessions and nearly 100 in-person personalized reading lists. It’s now time to expand this service by adding online components so that all Metro Library customers can participant in this service. 

Program Goals

Provide customers with suggestions for reading, library events, and library resources based on areas of reading interest.

Program Components

• Tailored Titles Online
  Customers complete a reading interest survey at metrolibrary.org and a content specialist will use their responses to build a personalized reading list (PRL).
• Tailored Titles Newsletters
  Customers subscribe to our genre-based email newsletters at metrolibrary.org to receive reading recommendations and information about resources and programs of interest on a monthly or bimonthly basis.
• Tailored Titles on Social Media
  A monthly readers’ advisory session (1st Wednesday of every month) that provides a personalized reading suggestion (within a 2 hour window) in response to a reader’s request received via Facebook or Twitter.
• Tailored Titles at Your Library
  Staff help customers complete the online reading interest survey at their library and a content specialist will use the responses to build a PRL.