What I'm Reading: Audiobook Reviews Round-Up
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Oscar Winning Films Based on Books, Part 2
This list screams out for a FMM display.....any volunteers??? At least a bookmark..... :-)
Friday, February 20, 2009
Oscar Winning Films Based on Books
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Encore Tagging for Beginners
Books cataloged in Encore have already been given subject headings by the Library of Congress. Subject headings are good if you want something general like vampires or westerns.
But tags can allow us to personalize lists of materials of specific interest to our patrons at Cook. For example, I have had several requests for the list of books nominated for the Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award (AKA the Abe Award). So I got a copy of the list and tagged the books on it in our catalog.
How to Add a Tag to a Title
1. Open Encore. Search for the desired title.
2. Click the title to view the full record.
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the record to the Community Tags section.
5. Click on Add a Tag.
6. Login with your barcode and password.
7. Add the desired tag (you can delete it if you change your mind).
8. Find another title to add a tag to!
The next time someone asks if we have a list of the books which have won the Abe Awards, all we need to do is point them toward the online catalog and show them how to search for them. Then they can view the list by date or alphabetically and/or print the list.
Tags added so far include:
ABE Award
The Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award , i.e. the ABE AWARD, is given each year to an author whose book is voted Most Outstanding by participating Illinois high school students. The award is sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA).
Abe Award Nominee 2009
Books nominated by HS students. Voting takes place in March at participating high schools which include LHS and VHHS ABE Award Nominee 2009.
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.
Printz Honor titles are those which were runners-up for the Printz Award.
Cook discussion book are books of which we have multiple copies available for book groups.
Oprah Book Club are books featured by Oprah's Book Club since she began it in 1998.
But tags can allow us to personalize lists of materials of specific interest to our patrons at Cook. For example, I have had several requests for the list of books nominated for the Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award (AKA the Abe Award). So I got a copy of the list and tagged the books on it in our catalog.
How to Add a Tag to a Title
1. Open Encore. Search for the desired title.
2. Click the title to view the full record.
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the record to the Community Tags section.
5. Click on Add a Tag.
6. Login with your barcode and password.
7. Add the desired tag (you can delete it if you change your mind).
8. Find another title to add a tag to!
The next time someone asks if we have a list of the books which have won the Abe Awards, all we need to do is point them toward the online catalog and show them how to search for them. Then they can view the list by date or alphabetically and/or print the list.
Tags added so far include:
ABE Award
The Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award , i.e. the ABE AWARD, is given each year to an author whose book is voted Most Outstanding by participating Illinois high school students. The award is sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA).
Abe Award Nominee 2009
Books nominated by HS students. Voting takes place in March at participating high schools which include LHS and VHHS ABE Award Nominee 2009.
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.
Printz Honor titles are those which were runners-up for the Printz Award.
Cook discussion book are books of which we have multiple copies available for book groups.
Oprah Book Club are books featured by Oprah's Book Club since she began it in 1998.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Tags in Encore
Taking Katie's suggestion to play around with one of Encore's newest features, I tagged a few YA award winners. If you want to know what books won the Printz Prize or were Printz Honor books, that can now be searched using tags.
I also tagged some of the Alex Award winners (adult books deemed to be good reads for YAs.)
Now we just need to let folks know what these tags mean.....
Thanks to Dave for adding good YA links to our FMM homepage. The YALSA page is especially useful for finding a good book for a teen.
Your lonely but devoted blogger.....
ej
I also tagged some of the Alex Award winners (adult books deemed to be good reads for YAs.)
Now we just need to let folks know what these tags mean.....
Thanks to Dave for adding good YA links to our FMM homepage. The YALSA page is especially useful for finding a good book for a teen.
Your lonely but devoted blogger.....
ej
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A Dirty Little Secret: Self-Censorship: Self-censorship is rampant and lethal
Truly apropos to recent conversations between the children's department and the adult fiction department!
A must-read article!
A must-read article!
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Best of the Best: A Unified List of 2008’s Best Books by Neil Hollands
Which books were really the best of 2008? That’s a very subjective question, but to make it a little less so, I’ve compiled a unified list of the best books of the year as named by 70 different review sources and award nomination lists. The unified list shows the number of votes received by each book and contains tables for general fiction; mysteries, thrillers, and action novels; speculative fiction; historical fiction; romance; inspirational fiction; young adult fiction; poetry; graphic novels; narrative nonfiction; biographies and memoirs; and how-to nonfiction. To see the full list, download the Excel spreadsheet at http://www.wrl.org/bookweb/best2008.xls.
A bit about the unified list: which category I placed a book in was my decision and may not agree with yours. I only included books first published in the US in 2008 (although I may have inadvertently included a few reprints, 2007 books, or books published only in Britain.) The Dewey numbers listed in the nonfiction lists are based on where Williamsburg Regional Library chose to catalog the book. Books we don’t currently have in our collection don’t show a call number (I may add these later from WorldCat, but for now, you’re on your own!) The tables are sorted first by number of votes and second by title, but if you download the spreadsheet, you can re-sort them as you wish. The sources are listed in the last table of the spreadsheet. For the most part a mention in a list or a nomination for award counted as one vote, although I’ve noted a few spots where I handled the votes differently.
Such lists are never entirely fair: Any reviewer can only read a few of the thousand of books publishsed each year. Some books just receive more publicity than others or are more likely to be read by the kind of people who review books. If you’re a fan of lighter fiction, genres like romance, inspirational, or urban fiction, it’s hard to find lists of a year’s best works. The same is true for many nonfiction categories: political works, biographies, essays, memoirs, and histories are well-represented and cookbook lists aren’t hard to find, but subjects such as self-help, religion, sports, and entertainment rarely make it onto the year-end lists.
But by adding up the number of votes from as many diverse review sources as I could find (and I praise the folks at the Readers’ Advisor Online Blog and Largehearted Boy for compiling lists of the lists), I hope I’ve given a slightly more fair look at the most-praised books published last year.
Which books were the big winners? I may still add a few more sources to the list as they come out or as I find them, but here are the top vote-getters so far, which I’ll list without commentary. For the full list in all categories, download the spreadsheet.
A bit about the unified list: which category I placed a book in was my decision and may not agree with yours. I only included books first published in the US in 2008 (although I may have inadvertently included a few reprints, 2007 books, or books published only in Britain.) The Dewey numbers listed in the nonfiction lists are based on where Williamsburg Regional Library chose to catalog the book. Books we don’t currently have in our collection don’t show a call number (I may add these later from WorldCat, but for now, you’re on your own!) The tables are sorted first by number of votes and second by title, but if you download the spreadsheet, you can re-sort them as you wish. The sources are listed in the last table of the spreadsheet. For the most part a mention in a list or a nomination for award counted as one vote, although I’ve noted a few spots where I handled the votes differently.
Such lists are never entirely fair: Any reviewer can only read a few of the thousand of books publishsed each year. Some books just receive more publicity than others or are more likely to be read by the kind of people who review books. If you’re a fan of lighter fiction, genres like romance, inspirational, or urban fiction, it’s hard to find lists of a year’s best works. The same is true for many nonfiction categories: political works, biographies, essays, memoirs, and histories are well-represented and cookbook lists aren’t hard to find, but subjects such as self-help, religion, sports, and entertainment rarely make it onto the year-end lists.
But by adding up the number of votes from as many diverse review sources as I could find (and I praise the folks at the Readers’ Advisor Online Blog and Largehearted Boy for compiling lists of the lists), I hope I’ve given a slightly more fair look at the most-praised books published last year.
Which books were the big winners? I may still add a few more sources to the list as they come out or as I find them, but here are the top vote-getters so far, which I’ll list without commentary. For the full list in all categories, download the spreadsheet.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Williamsburg Regional Library
WRL has a great page for RA with lists of all different genres. Good for making recommendations for those genre's we're not as familiar with. They have read-alilkes too.
I have website-envy.
I have website-envy.
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