Wednesday, August 22, 2007

NoveList

This database will be part of the NSWnet collection of databases from 1st Sept 2007. At Manly we have access through ANZRC from our on-line databases page. This site comes highly recommended. Strenuous lobbying from Readers Advisory groups ensured it made the list, and it does deserve to be there.

Pros: easy to use/navigate; heaps of useful information; can search by author, title, subject, series; can limit searches by size of book, level of reading and much more; author read-alikes; info for kids; questions with answers for book groups; support for readers advisory staff ; saves lists, print friendly & email
Cons: American bias. Not a lot of Australian content, however they do have list of Miles Franklin Award winners. Readers Advisory Group is currently
working on improving Australian content and looking for contributors.

DO TAKE A LOOK!!

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