News about Reader's Advisor Online (from Greenwood)

Expanded content!
Over the next six to nine months, Reader's Advisor Online content will double. That means coverage of even more titles, more annotations, more quick lists, and more read-alike suggestions..

Author Read-Alikes & Related Reads
We have just added Reading Lists by Sarah Statz Cords for Maya Angelou, Rick Bragg, Maureen Dowd, David McCollough, Oliver Sacks and Dava Sobel. We will be adding additional lists, including such diverse authors as Karen Armstong, Mark Bowden, Antonia Fraser, Thor Heyerdahl and Joseph Wambaugh. The author reading lists are linked to a cited author's titles and presented in list format in the Quick List (on the right side of the Work page). Click View Narrative on the Quick List to see the descriptive text explaining the appeals and characteristics linking the authors. You can also use browse the lists. Go to Browse, Choose Author Read-Alikes and voila! An A-Z list of the authors covered appears. Click the author's name and view the list. To Print, just click print on your browser's toolbar.

Genre News
The reorganization of Thrillers was completed in October (to those of you paying attention to dates, yes, a few weeks behind schedule). Thrillers is no longer a "child" genre of Adventure, but has been promoted to a separate genre. On the Advanced search page on the Genre Tree, Thrillers now appears at the "top" level (you'll find it above Westerns). Be sure to "open" Thrillers (click the right pointing triangle) to see the new organization, and read the new and revised definitions. New subgenres include Assassins & Hit Men, Conspiracy Thrillers and Spy Thrillers. Next, we will be making some modest revisions in Crime/Mystery & Detective.

Blog News
The Blog just keeps getting better and better! Blog Editor Cindy Orr compiles breaking news of interest to RAs and staff on the circ desk in RA Rundown every Monday (well, sometimes on Sunday) morning. Check out Cindy's post Bad Sex in Fiction Awards!) Who knew there was such an award?Also, be sure to see Diana Tixier Herald's coverage of the Reader's Advisory 2.0 workshop at CLA.

Free Training for Reader's Advisor Online Scheduled for December 4, 2007

Sarah Statz Cords, from Madison Public Library, Wisconsin, author of The Real Story, and associate editor for the Reader's Advisor Online, will be offering web-based training Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 1PM EDT / 10 AM PDT. Attendees will view the training via the web and will call a conference number to enable full participation in the training. Spaces are limited -- please register ASAP! You may reserve a seat by emailing laura.calderone@lu.com. Confirmation of registration and access instructions will be sent by email. Future dates include Tuesday January 8, 2008.

Health Sciences Interest Group Meeting

Health Sciences Interest Group Meeting (OhioLINK affiliates)
* This meeting was canceled due to a snowstorm! Watch for updates about rescheduling

Meeting Date: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
Time: 9:30 (refreshments, meet/greet), 10-3:30 meeting
Place: OhioLINK Offices: http://www.ohiolink.edu/about/ol-map.html

Basic agenda: business meeting/group discussion and small group breakouts in AM; Lunch; Nursing product show/tell in PM

For more information: Lynda Hartel, OSU Health Sciences or Mary Conroy, OHIONET

Naxos NML Change

Naxos will no longer offer the "rollover" pooled access subscription to Naxos Music Library for our OhioLINK group renewal. We advise that you monitor usage to determine the correct number of users needed for your institution at renewal time in July. Though we will lose the overflow pool, the advantage will be that your users will have consistent access to your own customized Naxos NML site and class play lists.

Graphic Novels Selection Guide

New Database Helps Librarians Select the Best of a Growing Literary Form

H.W. Wilson's new Graphic Novels Core Collection: A Selection Guide helps librarians bring patrons age-appropriate works from this increasingly popular literary form. This WilsonWeb selection guide highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations (plus cover art), searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level. Limiters for Fiction, Nonfiction, or Biography reflect the growing diversity of subjects treated in graphic novel format.

An automated "What's New" query lets users find what's been added to the database in the last week, month, year, or since the last time they looked. Users can also configure the database to email daily, weekly, or monthly alerts, citing new materials relevant to their search topic as they're added.

Welcome

Welcome to the OHIONET E-Res blog. We plan to use this blog to post timely updates about electronic resources. It should be of interest to our reference and acquisitions librarians. Questions and suggestions encouraged!

Mary Mlynar Conroy, OHIONET