NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 Plus

1. How can the view component make your job connecting readers with books easier? The series I chose to search for was the Susan Wiggs’ series. I love her style of writing. She has the ability to captivate me for hours while I am reading. I would use the view component on NoveList Plus or NoveList Plus K-8 to interest adults and kids in other books in a series that they might enjoy. I would choose the detailed view because it shows the student what the book looks like, gives all the important information on how to get it and gives a general overview of what the book is all about. That way they can preview the book that they are interested in reading before they begin reading it. It reminded me a lot of the book orders that my son comes home with because they also give a brief description along with the important book information so they can find it later or before they order it. It is important to be able to preview the book they are choosing to read so they do not spend (waste) a lot of time trying to figure out whether or not they will like the book when they start reading.

2. How can using this tool make your job easier and promote better customer service in your library? I am not a librarian, but I could imagine that having a tool like this will definitely increase my customer service approval and make my job easier if I were a librarian. My patrons would be able to look up their favorite author and find books by other authors with the same writing style. It introduces them to new authors, expands their reading lists and allows the librarian to assist others with other issues while these patrons find books of their liking. The librarian is freed up from having to suggest new reads and the patron is still getting spectacular customer service because they are finding new reads on their own.

3.  How can using NoveList Plus help you to increase awareness of the collection you have worked so hard to build, for both new and older items? Using NoveList Plus can help increase your awareness of the collection you have built because it keeps a record of all the books in a series from beginning to end. As the years go by, the librarian would only have to search up the series to see when new books are added to these collections. It would also show the librarian which series he/she might add if one particular series is real popular with the patrons. This will help them increase their collections and still keep their patrons pleased.

4. I guess I took the question in Question 3 too literal. Other participants answered in ways that they could help their patrons find particular books that their patrons would enjoy reading, where I answered ways that the librarian might use the NoveList Plus to keep their collections complete and up-to-date. I did manage to find one other participant that understood the question like I did. I am feeling better now.