BOOKS AND AUTHORS on the

WORLD WIDE WEB

A workshop for

Book Group Members ……and Book Lovers!

New Canaan LibraryFebruary 2002

Objectives

1. To identify the types of book/author/literature information available on the Web

2. To identify online resources for each type of information and learn how to use them

3. To use the New Canaan Library Homepage as an access point for many of these resources

Book Groups and the New Canaan Library

• Book Talk

• Reader’s Choice Series

• Book Group Collection books search at http://newcanaanlibrary.org/

(search as a subject heading in the catalog or in the

Featured Lists)

• Special scholar-led programs and book/author programs

What type of information? Book reviews Author information Literary criticism Reader reactions Book lists (Book awards, Genre fiction,

Readalikes) Discussion guides, recommendations, and

book talks Book buying Full text sources

Tools for Navigating the Web

• Cursor (pointer that you control with the mouse)

• Hyperlinks New Canaan Library Homepage

(click on the hyperlink to go to that site)

• Little pointing hand (tells you the text or picture is a

hyperlink)

• Hourglass (tells you to wait while page loads)

• Stop button (when a page takes too long to load, click on it to stop)

• Back button (takes you back to a previous page)

• Home button (takes you to the site’s home page)

Search Engines and Subject Guides to the Internet

yahoo http://www.yahoo.com

google http://www.google.com

Librarians’ Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/

Library Gateways

Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org/ref

Connecticut Digital Library

http://www.iconn.org/

New Canaan Library www.newcanaanlibrary.org

The New Canaan Library Homepage

www.newcanaanlibrary.org

Your Library Gateway to

“THE INVISIBLE WEB”

The NCL Homepage:Online Resource Databases

• Connecticut Digital Library (IConn) – General Reference Center Gold– Newspaper Collection– InfoTrac One File

• Galenet (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Literary Criticism)

• Novelist: Your Guide to Fiction– Book lists, articles, book discussion guides

• EbscoHost Link to Online Resources

The NCL Homepage:Virtual Reference Desk

• Books & Literature– Book Search and Reviews– Discussion Groups– Reading Lists – Literary Criticism

• Libraries– convenient links to Internet Public Library, Library

of Congress, local, state, and national libraries www.newcanaanlibrary.org

Summary of Searches

BEE SEASON / Myla Goldberg(Doubleday, 2000) (division of Random House)

• Information in Amazon and Barnes & Noble• Reviews in Gen. Ref. Center Gold, Custom

Newspapers, Infotrac OneFile, Ebsco• Discussion guides in ReadingGroupGuides,

Novelist, and on Random House page• Not in IPL Literary Criticism or Galenet

Summary of Searches

JOHN ADAMS / David McCullough(Simon & Schuster, 2001)

• Information in Amazon and Barnes & Noble• Reviews in Gen. Ref. Center Gold, Custom

Newspapers, Infotrac OneFile, Ebsco• BookReporter has a review, excerpt, and author

biography. Discussion guides not found. • Not in IPL Literary Criticism. Galenet has a profile

of McCullough’s life and works in Contemporary Authors.

Summary of SearchesBONESETTER’S DAUGHTER / Amy Tan(PenguinPutnam, 2001)

• Information in Amazon and Barnes & Noble• Reviews in Gen. Ref. Center Gold, Custom Newspapers,

Infotrac OneFile, Ebsco• BookReporter has a review, excerpt, and author biography.

Novelist has summary, reviews, link to Amy Tan’s homepage.• Discussion guides in ReadingGroupGuides and on

PenguinPutnam page. • Article and links in IPL Literary Criticism. Galenet has 26

citations and articles about Tan and her books.

Thank you for participating in

Books and Authors on the World Wide Web

at the

New Canaan Library

http://www.newcanaanlibrary.org

Presented by Lauren Phillips, Librarian 801-2646

lphillips@newcanaanlibrary.org