{"id":28901,"date":"2016-03-21T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=28901"},"modified":"2018-10-17T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:42:16","slug":"ucba-badreviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2016\/03\/ucba-badreviews\/","title":{"rendered":"UCBA Fun Facts: Giving Bad Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Question:\u00a0How do you feel about giving a bad or negative review<\/strong><em>?<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Heather.jpg\" alt=\"Heather\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heather Maloney, Library Director:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Reading opinions can be very personal (especially if reading for leisure) so I keep it constructive and from a place of my own personal preference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Michelle.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Michelle McKinney, Reference\/Web Services Librarian:<\/strong><em>\u00a0I like reading them if I don&#8217;t like a book. Sometimes I can&#8217;t find the words to describe why I don&#8217;t like a book and reading other people&#8217;s negative review helps.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kellie.jpg\" alt=\"Kellie\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><strong>Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian:\u00a0<\/strong><em>I think if the reviews are given critically, I&#8217;m okay with them. I also appreciate when reviewers acknowledge the difference between issues they personally had with a book and the issues that are problematic on a more general level.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lauren.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><strong>Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>I appreciate honesty and understand that not everyone is going to like the same books as me.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28057 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Robinson-Julie-D940-e1440708634957.jpg\" alt=\"julierobinson\" width=\"105\" height=\"100\" \/><strong>Julie Robinson, Library Operations Manager:\u00a0<\/strong><em>I try to keep it concrete and give specific examples, but just because I don&#8217;t care for a book doesn&#8217;t mean someone else won&#8217;t love it. I never want to discourage anyone from picking up a book.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28840 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PamAdler-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"pamadler\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Pam Adler, Public Services Assistant:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Reviews\/opinions. I will give my opinion, good\/bad\/indifferent if asked.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0How do you feel about giving a bad or negative review? Heather Maloney, Library Director:\u00a0Reading opinions can be very personal (especially if reading for leisure) so I keep it constructive and from a place of my own personal preference. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2016\/03\/ucba-badreviews\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[1673,544,910,817],"class_list":["post-28901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ucbalibnews","tag-bymichellemckinney","tag-fun-facts","tag-questionnaire","tag-ucba-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}