Reference Question of the Week – 2/3/08
This week's question is one heard often: "do you have any suggestions for a good book?" Librarians either love of hate this question. I've talked about various readers advisory tools (and the old...
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Last week's Reference Question was about me finding a new source for suggesting good books for patrons - the Mass Book Awards. Liz's comment on the post was a good one, and I thought it warranted a bit...
View ArticleNew(ish) Reading Suggestion Websites
Here are a couple reading suggestions website I came across recently that I liked: The first is TheBookCalendar.com, which is simply a book-a-day online calendar. It shows the cover, a description (and...
View ArticleSimple Book Suggester: BookSeer.com
My library started a new readers advisory program this summer, so I've been updating our reading suggestions webpage. A neat website I just added is bookseer.com. Bookseer is like many "what should I...
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