RUSA Notable Books List. RUSA: The Reading List. Publisher

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Brain Snack Selection Tips Tricks for Adult
Collections

• December 12, 2008
• Jean Anderson, SCLS

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Typical Selection Tools

• Booklist
• Library Journal
• Publishers Weekly
• http//www.scls.info/ce/index.html
• Bookmarks
• http//www.bookmarksmagazine.com/

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Newspapers Magazines

• Your local paper
• People, NYT, Wall Street Journal
• Oprah, Better Homes Gardens
• And many more!

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Databases

• NoveList
• An excellent RA tool
• Has Book Club information
• Review source, too
• EBSCO and ProQuest
• Create an alert for book reviews or journals
• http//support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php
  ?faq1286
• http//proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/lcd/alerts/alerts
  .htm

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Blogs and Web sites

• LibraryThing
• Amazon
• Publishers sites
• Genre web sites just a sample
• The Mystery Reader
• The Romance Reader
• The SF Site
• Western Authors

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Bibliographies

• Make Mine a Mystery
• Read on Fantasy Fiction
• many others in this series
• Book Lust and More Book Lust
• Fiction Catalog
• Public Library Catalog
• All available from SCLS Professional Collection

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Best and Best Seller Lists

• RUSA Notable Books List
• RUSA The Reading List
• Publishers Weekly
• Amazon Top Sellers
• Many other year end lists from various sources
• Dont Miss Lists (on LINKcat)

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And More!

• Prize winners
• Pulitzer, Booker, National Book Award
• Customer or Patron requests
• Do you have a way for your patrons to request
  books?
• Book clubs and reading guides
• Reading Group Guides
• Reading Group Choices
• Oprah
• Your local book clubs what are they reading?

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Keeping up

• Baker Taylor
• Automatically Yours (for Fiction)
• Continuation Services (for Nonfiction)
• Standing Orders
• Catalogs only keep those you really use and
  toss the rest

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Blogs

• Madison Public Library blogs more
• MADreads
• BookLetters
• http//www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/inde
  x.html
• EarlyWord the Publisher/Librarian Connection
• The Tech Static

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And more blogs

• Bookreporter.com
• The blog from ReadingGroupGuides.com
• Book club girl
• Readers Advisor Online
• Any others to add to the list?

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Tips

• Read, read, read
• Talk, talk, talk
• Read out of your comfort zone
• Subscribe to some blogs
• It will save you time in the long run
• Coming in January program on using a blog
  reader and subscribing to them

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What tips tricks to you have?

• How do you keep up?
• What sources to you regularly use?
• Do you have standing orders or an automatic
  shipping plan?
• Simplify your ordering process
• Track an order from start to finish and see how
  the process can be simplified or changed

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Thanks!

• Contact me with any questions!
• jfanders_at_scls.lib.wi.us
• 608-246-5613