Week 2-Level 1 SOCIAL CATALOGING

Sign up for Good Reads, Library Thing or Shelfari:

How do you keep track of what you read and what to read next?  The following websites were all created to help the book lover create an online catalog of their books, keep a record of what you read, find book suggestions, create a social space for readers, and much more!  Not only are they for personal use, but they are a great readers advisory tool that you can use on the job!

Library Thing, Good Reads, and Shelfari are all Web 2.0 technologies that are easy and free to use.  Try signing up for an account at each of the sites and enter in a few books you have read.  There are so many amazing features to each of these sites.

Resources:
Library Thing Tour

Good Reads Tour

Level 1 Exercise:

Create an account at one or all the discussed sites.  Add at least 5 books to your library.  Blog about your findings. 

Suggested blog questions:

• If you signed up for more than one of these sites, how do they compare? 
• How can you use these as a professional tool to help with readers advisory and kids? 
• Do you think you'll use any of these websites?
• Are you already using one or more of these websites or have you used them in the past?
• How have you used them? 
• What features do you like or dislike about them?

Extra Credit- Read the article, Reading Suggestion Engines: Your Next Read, from School Library Journal.  Check out the readers advisory sites suggested in the article and blog about what you think of them.