Check out this new booklist on BookGuide at the following link:
Check out the list of titles Jen shared at the following link:
Did you know that the Lincoln City Libraries' BookGuide readers advisory services maintain a Goodreads account? You can see what books have been featured as Staff Recommendations in our monthly reviews, what books have been used by library-sponsored book discussion groups, and more.
If you're on Goodreads, feel free to "friend" BookGuide there to stay on top of the latest titles added to our library readers advisory resources!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16595872-bookguide
BookGuide is also on LibraryThing as well, cataloging much the same content. If you've got a LibraryThing account, mark BookGuide as a contact there, too!
Happy Valentines Day 2023!
Check out all of the booklists on the Lincoln City Libraries' BookGuide readers advisory pages in the Romance category, to find some romantic reads! You can also see our Romance resource page, listing links to numerous romance fiction websites found on the internet.
Romance Booklists on BookGuide
Romance Fiction Resources Page on BookGuide
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Following several requests for an easier way to find content on the BookGuide readers advisory pages that would be of specific interest to readers seeking LGBTQ+ materials, we added a new specialized index page. This LGBTQ+ index on BookGuide consolidates all the reviews of LGBTQ+ book/dvd reviews, booklists, bookstalk booklists, Award Winner lists, If You Like... lists, information about LGBTQ+ book groups, etc.
Check out the new index page at the link below, and continue to visit in the future, as new content is added when it becomes available on BookGuide!
Are you a fan of the novels of John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns? If so, you may be interested in checking out the "readalikes" list that Carrie R., at the downtown Bennett Martin Public Library put together.
Are you fascinated by fiction that is told in non-traditional ways? Do you miss the days of sending and receiving long handwritten letters to share your thoughts and feelings? Were you fascinated by This is How You Lose the Time War, The Divorce Papers, Letters From Skye, Where'd You Go Bernadette?, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, World War Z or We Need to Talk About Kevin? How about classics, such as Dracula, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, The Screwtape Letters or Flowers For Algernon?
Their common denominator --> various forms of written communication, from letters, to diaries/journals, to e-mails to newspaper accounts, to blogs, to checklists, to departmental business documents and Post-It Notes.
If this format of storytelling appeals to you, then you'll want to explore the new booklist available on the libraries' BookGuide readers advisory pages as of this month -- Epistolary Fiction. Covering ancient literature of antiquity through the first decades of the 21st century, you'll find hundreds of fascinating reads -- and all titles that are owned by the Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked into our online catalog, to allow you to check on availability and/or place holds.
Cindy is a relatively new staff member at Bennett Martin Public Library, but has been with the libraries in one capacity or another for several years, and has been actively submitting reviews of both adult and youth-related materials for the Staff Recommendations page(s) on the libraries' BookGuide reader resources pages for the past year, and was happy to respond to our profile questions.
Please check out Cindy's Reviewer Profile page below, where you'll also find links to all her past book reviews!
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February is traditionally Black History Month. In conjunction with displays on this theme at several of our library locations, the staff of the Lincoln City Libraries has created a variety of new and updated booklists related to Black Authors and Black History.
We've combined them all into a single page located in our BookGuide readers advisory pages.
If you're looking for a good Black History Month read, check out the resources at the following page:
Scott is a relatively new staff member with the libraries, but has been actively submitting reviews of music-related materials for the Staff Recommendations page(s) on the libraries' BookGuide reader resources pages for the past year, and was happy to respond to our profile questions.
Please check out his Reviewer Profile page below, where you'll also find links to all his book reviews!
For several years now, the Lincoln City Libraries have made use of a service called BookLetters to provide a wide variety of booklist-formatted newsletters, which anyone can subscribe to receive in their e-mail. At present, there are over 30 newsletters available to subscribe to. Many come pre-packaged from the BookLetters company, in a standardized format, and several are custom-created by Lincoln City Libraries' staff members.
All books featured in all newsletter issues include "Check Our Catalog" links you can click, to check on the availability of titles, and/or to place holds in our on-line catalog. All books in all newsletters also feature "More Info" links, so you can see a more-detailed description of each title.
Our two most popular newsletters are New Books on Order, and New DVDs, which give you a monthly sampler of titles we think are going to be popular in next few months -- place holds on hot new titles before most customers are even aware the books are coming out! Or check out the "custom newsletters" at the end of this list, in which various library staff from throughout Lincoln give you their personal reading, listening and viewing recommendations, with their own personal commentaries!
Here's a list of the currently-available newsletters for subscribers:
Pre-packaged: (mostly monthly -- anywhere from 4 or 5 to as many as 25 new titles in each issue!)
Audiobooks
Business
Children's Chapter Books
Children's Picture Books
Fiction Adventure
Lifestyles
Mystery
New DVDs
New Fiction
New Non-Fiction
Past and Present (Biographies and General Non-Fiction History)
Romance
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Science and Nature
Teen Scene
BookLetters Daily (an in-depth look at one specific book each day, Mon-Fri, including a selection of both fiction and non-fiction titles)
Fiction Best-Sellers (weekly)
Non-Fiction Best-Sellers (weekly)
Here are the customer or specialized newsletters our staff work on:
New Books on Order (monthly - duplicates the list you see on display at library check-out desks)
New Large Type Books on Order (same but with a focus on LT titles)
Book Club Choices (monthly recommendations of titles appropriate for book club discussions)
One Book - One Lincoln (lists associated with this annual event)
Adult Programs and Events (lists associated with other adult programming in the libraries)
Family Fare (news and book recommendations for families)
What's Cooking (new cookbooks)
Isn't That Movie a Book? (book tie-ins to movie and TV releases)
Here are the newsletters that take on a "book column" format, from various library staff: (some monthly, some on a less-regular schedule)
Customer Snapshot (each issue profiles a different library customer and their reading suggestions)
The Heritage Room Newsletter (news and book announcements from the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors, located on the 3rd floor of the downtown library)
Polley Music Library Picks (new music books, and other music news from the Polley Music Librarian)
Lisa V.'s Book Crave (themed reading recommendations from Lisa at Eiseley Branch, a reader with eclectic tastes)
It's All Geek to Me! (themed reading recommendations from Scott at the downtown library, a self-avowed "reading geek")
Susan's Speculations (themed reading recommendations from Teen specialist Susan at Eiseley Branch)
The Women of Walt (themed reading recommendations from a rotating group of Walt Branch staff, each with different reading interests)
Subscription Page -- Click here to go to our page where you can subscribe to any/all of the available newsletters. You can also see the latest issue of all available newsletters by clicking on their titles on this page. If you wish to subscribe, simply check the boxes next to the newsletters you're interested in, and at the bottom of the page, enter your current valid e-mail address in the entry box, and click the Subscribe button. You'll start receiving new issues of each newsletter as they are published.
Back Issues Page -- We are able to keep a back-issue archive of some of the "custom" newsletter we produce, and you'll find them by clicking on this page, where you can see issues going back several years.
It's all free to you as a customer of the Lincoln City Libraries -- all you need is a current, active e-mail account to receive the content. You can unsubscribe at any time.
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