A little late, but here goes. First I LOVE using Novelist Plus.

For my series, I thought I'd look up the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, a favorite of many of our patrons. Excited to help them with the order of the series and to recommend other authors to try.  I'm always referring to Novelist to get the order of a particular series. So many of our patrons want to read all the books by a certain author, say James Patterson, in the order of publication and series. Novelist is great for this, plus using the "view" function I'm able to print off a brief or detailed list for our patron to have and refer to. I don't usually use the "grid" option under view. The lists also help me build our collection, adding titles we are missing of a particular authors series. Can you tell I like Novelist!

I refer our patrons to this database for their personal use too, especially if they'd like to learn about other authors who they may enjoy. This brings up the "author read-alike" feature, another great tool I'm always accessing and telling our patrons about. Recently I had a patron who loves Anne Perry's William Monk mysteries so I checked out Novelist Plus to see what other authors she might enjoy. She was thrilled!!! We have books by Tasha Alexander and Val McDermid she can check out.

I'm always learning more about Novelist Plus too each time I use it, never realized the magnifying glass within the author read-alikes brings up a pop-up window with a brief description and reason for author being listed. This is great! I'll be sure to use it more.

In summary, Novelist  Plus is a great reader's advisory for author read-alike, series order, author descriptions, and so much more. Good research tool for creating booklists, bookmarks, setting up genre displays. It's use is endless... Love their e-newsletter too.

Until next time. So long for now.
Cheryl
            So many resources, so little time.