Week 5: Assignment 2 What’s popular in your branch? If it’s “popular” or “commercial” fiction then you want be sure to look at The New York Times Best Seller List or People Magazine. For forthcoming titles check the Publisher’s Weekly On Sale calendar. If literary fiction and narrative nonfiction is popular, you can monitor the Indie Next Best Seller List (formerly BookSense) and NPR. Do your customers want to read the book before the movie comes out? More than likely, you have a diverse mix of customers who have equally diverse reading preferences, but all of these resources are available via Early Word. Take a look at the site and click around; there are lots of links in both sidebars. Post to your blog: What resources are new discoveries for you? What do you think that you will continue to use?
Well, since EarlyWord was the resource I have chosen to monitor from Week 1, I've already related some of my impressions about the resources to be found there. In terms of new discoveries, I'll reiterate how useful I have found the Books & Movies category to be in providing inspiration for future teen programs for the fall and winter. Please see Week 5, Assignment 1 for details.
In terms of that which I believe I will continue to use, I must say (or rather, say again) that I was quite impressed with the highly visible, easily accessible archival pages that are conveniently listed not in a series of drop-down menu, pulling one progressively farther from the main page, but in a legible, prominently placed listing on the left-hand side of the page. The order of these archival categories is comprehensive and detailed without being overly long, and I appreciate being able to to easily navigate from the current entry in say, "Steal These Ideas" to past entries without having to perform a search for the archives in question.
Note: When I mention the archives, I do not mean the official monthly archives. Instead I refer to the "Categories" section above the "Archives." Once I click on a give category though, the heading at the top of the page specifies that this is an archival section, reading something along the lines of (for example): "Archives for New Title Radar Category"
Well, since EarlyWord was the resource I have chosen to monitor from Week 1, I've already related some of my impressions about the resources to be found there. In terms of new discoveries, I'll reiterate how useful I have found the Books & Movies category to be in providing inspiration for future teen programs for the fall and winter. Please see Week 5, Assignment 1 for details.
In terms of that which I believe I will continue to use, I must say (or rather, say again) that I was quite impressed with the highly visible, easily accessible archival pages that are conveniently listed not in a series of drop-down menu, pulling one progressively farther from the main page, but in a legible, prominently placed listing on the left-hand side of the page. The order of these archival categories is comprehensive and detailed without being overly long, and I appreciate being able to to easily navigate from the current entry in say, "Steal These Ideas" to past entries without having to perform a search for the archives in question.
Note: When I mention the archives, I do not mean the official monthly archives. Instead I refer to the "Categories" section above the "Archives." Once I click on a give category though, the heading at the top of the page specifies that this is an archival section, reading something along the lines of (for example): "Archives for New Title Radar Category"
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