Readers Advisory

Readers Advisory Links

• Under the Covers Book Reviews Over 3400 book reviews, searchable by genre, subject, author, title, and publication date.
  
• Reader's Advisory Services The Inland Library System provides this annotated list of reader's advisory services on the Internet.
  
• MIRAGe Readers' Advisory Links Page Useful links to the wide variety of Readers' Advisory sources available on the internet. Quite extensive.
  
• Word of Mouth (Sleepers) Each issue of Library Journal, since June 1995, has included a copyright-free page of librarian-contributed booktalks for adults. The titles in each column may be recent, a few years old, or much older but still available to add to collections.
  
• BookBrowser: The Guide for Avid Readers A collection of fiction reading lists, book reviews, and forthcoming titles. Fiction series are listed in order.
  
• Allreaders.com Allows users to search for books by characteristics of plot, theme, setting, and structure.
  
• The Reader's Robot -- A Reader's Advisory Service The Reader's Robot will try to match your reading tastes with books in its database(s) and suggest books you might enjoy.
  
• The Global Conversation: Reader's Advisory on the Internet Argues that readers'advisory librarians can use the Internet in three key ways: answering difficult patron requests, as a source of information on authors and their works, and as a collection development resource. Presents a variety of useful tools on the Internet. Created by Roberta S. Johnson.
  
• Danny Yee's Book Reviews Nearly 600 book reviews on a variety of topics including zoology, physics, philosophy, religion, fiction and politics.
  
• RCLS LibraryLand: Reader's Advisory Reader's Advisory resources organized by subject area (i.e., mysteries, Christian fiction, etc.) or focus (i.e., bibliotherapy, reading promotion, etc.). Subject resources include award lists, reading lists, and book-related websites.