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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Readers' Advisory Databases

Helping You Find Great Books to Read!

Books in Print is a professional bibliographic database with more than 5.6 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, book, audio book, and video titles. Freeport Memorial Library cardholders can read the first chapter of more than 48,900 entries and have access to full-text reviews from 15 respected, professional sources such as Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Choice.


Fiction Connection
gives you book suggestions based on books you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest. Easily create a personalized list of recommended titles based on characteristics you enjoy. Fiction and biography titles are included and suggestions can be printed or e-mailed for later review. You can browse books by title, topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe.

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.


NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen.