Showing posts with label Readers Advisory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Readers Advisory. Show all posts

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!!