Lesson 3 - Reader's Advisory

I had to go to the Anchorage library off of Denali to get a library card.  (I just moved to Anchorage not long ago.)  Then I went to the research section and the librarian said that I could get on-line at home and search the NoveList database at my ease.  I was very happy about that.  --- I just thought of the library on campus!  I didn't even think about that! (head-smack!)  I'm such a retard.

Anyway...

1.  What I did first was put in "Little House on the Prairie" so I could find books that would be similar to them.  I found them with no problem since there is a tab that says "Title Read-alikes" and "Series Read-alikes".  I found a lot of books that I would love to read!  I never knew there was so much out there!  This is an awesome database!  You can click on whatever age you want and genre, etc.  It's wonderful.  As far as the databases accuracy I really wouldn't know because I don't have time to read all those books to make a decision about it.  But the short synopsis's that they have on the site seem to be good enough so I can distinguish which ones I might be interested in.  The same with the series recommendations.  So much stuff to read!

2.  At first I didn't have an account so I didn't sign in so the stuff that I saved in my folder disappeared after I left.  But I set up my account and redid everything so now everything is good.

3.  I found out how to list the series in order with no problem at all.  Just mash the series tab and voila.

4.  Readers Advisory Toolbox was a little hard for me to find.  So I went to the help section and it had a link there.  I also found later that it is on the home page.  (Duh.)
So I did a few quests with that tool.  Fun.  I could probably find any book in the world with this site.  I'm very impressed.  Then again I'm not a librarian so it's probably all blase to y'all.

I mashed the "Search Other Databases" and I found one on auto repair and several searches under EBSCO (which has a lot of periodicals in it).

Librarything.com seems to be a good place to search for recommendations.  Goodreads.com is okay.  You have to sign in, put in the books that you like, and then it will recommend something for you.  Far and away NoveList is much better.  I bet y'all would have much better sites!