Great Free Websites for

Books and Readers Advisory Information

 

 

Books in a Series

http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/serieslist.html

From the Monroe County Public Library in Indiana, this list covers children’s titles the best, but some teen and adult series are also included. The list is arranged by author.

 

Books in a Series (#2)

            http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/

From the Mid-Continent Public Library in Missouri, this list covers children’s and teen titles (some adult series are also included).  The list is accessible by series title, series subject, book title, or author.

 

FictionFinder

http://fictionfinder.oclc.org/

From OCLC, “a work-based approach to fiction.”  Search by place, character, fiction categories, and more. The project is a prototype based on FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), and certainly worth checking out.

 

Gnooks

http://www.gnooks.com/

Gnooks is a reader’s community that helps you discover new writers you will like based on the books and authors you already like.  Their ever-changing “Map of Literature” is the chief attraction—pointing you to new authors based on authors you already know and enjoy.

 

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

Project Gutenberg is the longest existing producer of free eBooks.  Their collection totals over 15,000 eBooks produced by volunteers.  Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are works that are in the public domain, at least in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.

 

Storycode

http://www.storycode.com/

A book recommendation service still in beta which is based on user ratings (which come from a series of questions about the books they choose to rate) and decides which other books are an acceptable percentage match.

	Produced by Sarah Houghton for Infopeople’s booth presentations at the 2005 CLA Annual Conference