The readers' adviser in a public library has a vital service to perform but very few guidelines by which to perform it. Psychologists and sociologists have recently produced material in the area of non-verbal communication which is valuable, but it may be more usful to see how their work has already been applied in other practical fields like management and social work, especially the latter which is more akin in some ways to the work of the readers' adviser.
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