BOOKS AND AUTHORS on the WORLD WIDE WEB

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BOOKS AND AUTHORS on the WORLD
WIDE WEB

• A workshop for
• Book Group Members and Book Lovers!

New Canaan Library February 2002
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Objectives
1. To identify the types of book/author/literatu
re information available on the Web 2. To
identify online resources for each type of
information and learn how to use them 3. To use
the New Canaan Library Homepage as an access
point for many of these resources
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Book Groups and the New Canaan Library

• Book Talk
• Readers Choice Series
• Book Group Collection books
• search at http//newcanaanlibrary.org/
• (search as a subject heading in the catalog or
  in the Featured Lists)
• Special scholar-led programs and book/author
  programs

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What type of information?

• Book reviews
• Author information
• Literary criticism
• Reader reactions
• Book lists (Book awards, Genre fiction,
  Readalikes)
• Discussion guides, recommendations, and book
  talks
• Book buying
• Full text sources

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Tools for Navigating the Web

• Cursor (pointer that you control with the
  mouse)
• Hyperlinks New Canaan Library Homepage
• (click on the hyperlink to go to
  that site)
• Little pointing hand (tells you the text or
  picture is a hyperlink)
• Hourglass (tells you to wait while page loads)
• Stop button (when a page takes too long to load,
  click on it to stop)
• Back button (takes you back to a previous page)
• Home button (takes you to the sites home page)

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Search Engines and Subject Guides to the
Internet

• yahoo http//www.yahoo.com
• google http//www.google.com
• Librarians Index to the Internet
• http//lii.org/

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Library Gateways

• Internet Public Library
• http//www.ipl.org/ref
• Connecticut Digital Library
• http//www.iconn.org/
• New Canaan Library www.newcanaanlibrary.org

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The New Canaan Library Homepage
www.newcanaanlibrary.org

• Your Library Gateway to
• THE INVISIBLE WEB

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The NCL HomepageOnline Resource Databases

• Connecticut Digital Library (IConn)
• General Reference Center Gold
• Newspaper Collection
• InfoTrac One File
• Galenet (Dictionary of Literary Biography,
  Contemporary Authors, Literary Criticism)
• Novelist Your Guide to Fiction
• Book lists, articles, book discussion guides
• EbscoHost Link to Online Resources

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The NCL HomepageVirtual Reference Desk

• Books Literature
• Book Search and Reviews
• Discussion Groups
• Reading Lists
• Literary Criticism
• Libraries
• convenient links to Internet Public Library,
  Library of Congress, local, state, and national
  libraries www.newcanaanlibrary.org

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Summary of Searches

• BEE SEASON / Myla Goldberg
• (Doubleday, 2000) (division of Random House)
• Information in Amazon and Barnes Noble
• Reviews in Gen. Ref. Center Gold, Custom
  Newspapers, Infotrac OneFile, Ebsco
• Discussion guides in ReadingGroupGuides,
  Novelist, and on Random House page
• Not in IPL Literary Criticism or Galenet

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Summary of Searches

• JOHN ADAMS / David McCullough
• (Simon Schuster, 2001)
• Information in Amazon and Barnes Noble
• Reviews in Gen. Ref. Center Gold, Custom
  Newspapers, Infotrac OneFile, Ebsco
• BookReporter has a review, excerpt, and author
  biography. Discussion guides not found.
• Not in IPL Literary Criticism. Galenet has a
  profile of McCulloughs life and works in
  Contemporary Authors.

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Summary of Searches

• BONESETTERS DAUGHTER / Amy Tan
• (PenguinPutnam, 2001)
• Information in Amazon and Barnes Noble
• Reviews in Gen. Ref. Center Gold, Custom
  Newspapers, Infotrac OneFile, Ebsco
• BookReporter has a review, excerpt, and author
  biography. Novelist has summary, reviews, link
  to Amy Tans homepage.
• Discussion guides in ReadingGroupGuides and on
  PenguinPutnam page.
• Article and links in IPL Literary Criticism.
  Galenet has 26 citations and articles about Tan
  and her books.

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Thank you for participating inBooks and
Authors on the World Wide Web

• at the
• New Canaan Library
• http//www.newcanaanlibrary.org
• Presented by Lauren Phillips, Librarian
  801-2646
• lphillips_at_newcanaanlibrary.org