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The article discusses the integrated advisory service defined as a way of providing advisory services to library users that includes all various formats and media while staying focused around a genre. Topics discussed include the need for whole collection advisors to read, listen and watch widely and the different ways for promoting whole-collection advisory services to the public such as asking patrons open-ended questions as an effective conversation starter.

The article discusses how Niles-Maine Public Library District, Oak Park Public Library, and Kankakee Public Library in Library bring Hamiltunes program to their patrons. Topics mentioned include the move to market the event at Niles-Maine as costumes-optional karaoke, collaboration of librarians Genevieve Grove and Shelley Harris for Hamiltunes sing-along at Oak Park, and selection of performers by lottery for the Hamiltunes program at Kankakee.