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Leah Napier

Leah Napier

Readers Advisory is dead: how to stop worrying and learn to love books

Librarians think readers advisory is a specialist skillset. I’m here to tell you it’s not. Reframe your thinking and learn to love books.

Mar 15, 2023

White woman with blonde hair packs books into a plastic bag with bookshelves in the background, anothe woman wearing a green beret across the counter with her back to the camera

Mar 15, 2023

Leah Napier

Five Tools To Give Better Book Recommendations That Librarians Use Every Day

Top tips for better book recs, every time

Mar 13, 2023

Five Tools To Give Better Book Recommendations That Librarians Use Every Day

Mar 13, 2023

Leah Napier

5 books to read after you finish Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s smash hit novel adaptation has just hit Amazon Prime

Mar 9, 2023

5 books to read after you finish Daisy Jones & The Six

Mar 9, 2023

Leah Napier

Shifting the library mindset: browsing over searching

Does your library look something like this? Rows and rows of neatly placed spine-out books, identical shelves, long corridors where the eye…

Mar 9, 2023

Woman wearing white with short dark hair holds a pile of books that reach her chin. She stands in front of white bookshelves lined with books and she is looking at the camera.

Mar 9, 2023

Leah Napier

Merchandise your library: first, make the books beautiful

Libraries have an image problem.

Mar 7, 2023

Merchandise your library: first, make the books beautiful

Mar 7, 2023

Leah Napier

5 Quick Book Display Ideas for Public Libraries (And One To Avoid)

You have all the tools you need to create a great new display right now

Jun 27, 2022

5 Quick Book Display Ideas for Public Libraries (And One To Avoid)

Jun 27, 2022

Leah Napier

3 Ways Public Libraries Can Innovate Their Spaces in an Hour (Free!)

Budget-friendly tips for time-poor librarians

Jun 24, 2022

3 Ways Public Libraries Can Innovate Their Spaces in an Hour (Free!)

Jun 24, 2022

Leah Napier

4 Books To Read If You Loved Sea of Tranquility

Emily St John Mandel’s latest literary sci-fi ticks a lot of boxes

Jun 21, 2022

4 Books To Read If You Loved Sea of Tranquility

Jun 21, 2022

Leah Napier

Seven Writing Prompts That Are Just Images

These photos are begging for their secret stories to be told

Jun 17, 2022

Black and white photograph of four young women in evening dress sitting in front of a wall painted with landscape scenery.

Jun 17, 2022

Leah Napier

Writing from the Home Front: Six War Diaries by Women

Women’s home front diaries you should read if you’re interested in wartime stories

Jun 15, 2022

Black and white photo of two women in nurse’s uniforms talking to several men over a gate.

Jun 15, 2022

Leah Napier

Leah Napier

Librarian, historian, writer. I recommend books because I read them and work with them, and I write and research because it’s enjoyable.

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