NET EFFECTS: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet Edited by Marylaine Block

Chapter Two: How Librarians Are Rescuing the Book

Improving Intellectual and Physical Access

• Blackwell's Tables of Contents Enrichment Service http://www.blackwell.com/level2/TOC.asp

• Table-of-Contents Enhancement of the Catalog http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/martyrep.htm

• Chapter-a-Day http//www.chapteraday.com/

• E-Book Library at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
  Over 1800 public domain titles formatted for MS Reader and Palm

• Morton Grove Public Library: MatchBook http://www.webrary.org/rs/matchbookabout.html
  fill out a form to indicate your reading preferences and you will automatically be notified of new books that match your profile.

• Quad-LINC Web Catalog http://qlweb.rbls.lib.il.us/
  the shared catalog and circulation system for 40+ academic, school, public, medical, and special libraries in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois. Cardholders at any library can check out books at any other library and even have them delivered to their home libraries.

• "Risk-Taking at the Library http://neohio.craintech.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=2648
  article about an e-book lending program with over 1,000 titles at the Clevnet Library Network.
  
  
  

  Center for the Book

• Center for the Book at the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/ctr-bro.html
  In addition to its own programs, links to all the state centers for the book.

• Vermont Center for the Book http://www.vermontbook.org/home.html
  an example of what the state centers for the book are doing, this one concentrates heavily on working with children.

• Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library http://www.spl.org/wacentbook/centbook.html
  home of the original One City, One Book program.
  
  
  

  Group Reading Programs

• Book and Poetry Discussion Groups [Las Vegas Clark County Library District] http://www.lvccld.org/events/programs_exhibits/books_poetry.htm
  The library offers many reading groups on a wide variety of topics

• Hennepin County Library - Readers Online http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/OnlineBookDisc.cfm

• If All of Seattle Read the Same Book http://www.spl.org/wacentbook/seattleread/samebook.html

• Waterboro Library Blog: "What Books Cities Are Reading Together." http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blogs/blog381402.htm#onebook

• Yahoo: One Book Community Reading Programs http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Organizations/Reading_Groups/One_Book_Community_Reading_Programs/
  
  
  

  Creating New Readers

• BuildLiteracy.org http://www.buildliteracy.org/index.htm
  "an interactive how-to web site for building and sustaining literacy coalitions, collaborations and partnerships. BuildLiteracy.org is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS)."

• Guys Read: a Literacy Initiative for Boys http://www.guysread.com
  Author Jon Scieszka's campaign to convince boys that reading is cool.

• Recommended Graphic Novels for Public Libraries, Selected and Annotated by Steve Raiteri http://my.voyager.net/~sraiteri/graphicnovels.htm
  Librarian Steve Raiteri, who selects graphic novels for his own libary, now also reviews graphic novels for Library Journal

• SOL-PLUS http://www.sol-plus.net/
  Spanish in Our Libraries and Public Libraries Using Spanish are key resources to help serve Spanish-speaking readers.

• StoryPlace-The Children's Digital Library http://www.storyplace.org
  from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County , a children's digital library, in English and Spanish.

• Teenspace http://teenspace.cincinnatilibrary.org/books/
  One of many similar pages created by librians, this offers hot authors and series, award lists, reviews of new books, and a place for teens to submit their own recommendations
  
  
  

  Booklists, Blogs, Reviews, and More

• Book Lists and Bibliographies http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm
  A clearinghouse for the recommended reading lists that every library generates, courtesy of Waterboro Public Library (ME)

• Hennepin County Library - Readers Online - If You Like... Database http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/iyl/

• Morton Grove Public Library: Fiction-L Booklists http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklistmenu.html
  Look for recommendations by genre, characters, region, subject, author, and audience.

• WPL: Waterboro Lib Blog http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm
  Molly Williams has created the best, most comprehensive source for news about books and reading -- new author interviews, book reviews, forthcoming books, web sites for readers, etc.
  
  
  

  Keeping a Watchful Eye on the Future

• Death of the Book? Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/bookfuture/futureofbook.htm
  Presentation materials are available here from the recent conference held by the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

• Future of the Book http://www.futureofthebook.com/
  An irregular weblog

• Literacy in America http://bookmagazine.com/issue24/literacy.shtml
  useful article from Book Magazine discusses the dimensions of the problem and some imaginative solutions.

• OCLC Report on 5 Year Information Format Trends http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/community/informationtrends.pdf
  
  
  

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