BookBrowse for Libraries: Readers' Advisory Feature List

BookBrowse For Libraries

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Subscriber Benefits

- Free
- Subscriber

Basic Content

- Fiction, nonfiction, and some YA
- Jacket summaries and excerpts
- Collection of media and pre-pub reviews for more than 16,000 contemporary titles, condensed to salient opinions.
- Author biographies, interviews and pronunciation guide

Online Magazine

- The BookBrowse Review (publishes twice-monthy)
- Access to full magazine archives
- Opt-in email notifications for patrons when new issues publish, branded for library

Book Discovery and Collection Development

- Search and cross-reference by genre, time period, setting and theme
- Hand-picked read-alikes for 4,000+ titles and 3,0000+ authors
- In-depth reviews
- “Beyond the book” articles
- Previews of notable books publishing soon (online and downloadable)
- Award-winners and favorites

Book Clubs

- Book club recommendations by genre, time period, setting and theme
- Weekly top-10 most popular book club titles
- 1,600+ Reading guides (printable)
- Interviews with book clubs
- Advice on starting and running a book club

Community

- On-line book discussions
- Reader reviews
- Book news and blog
- Giveaways and literary quizzes

Library Integration

- Web pages and emails branded for library, no advertising
- Links from each book to relevant result in OPAC
- Seamless access within the library via IP recognition
- Access for patrons outside the library via “login-free remote access”
- Free BookBrowse bookmarks, tent cards, posters and shelf talker inserts
- Web graphics and dynamic apps
- Unlimited support for both librarians and patrons
- Monthly usage stats

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