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Readers' Advisory in Public Libraries and Translated Fiction

This article focuses on translated fiction, its place and role in readers' advisory services in public libraries, and possible approaches that readers' advisors can take toward this type of reading material. It reviews the relevance of translated fiction to the needs of both English-speaking readers and immigrant readers who speak English as a second language. This article also presents a readily available list of selected readers' advisory and bibliographic sources that can help librarians to keep up with the most recent translated publications.