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Entries for May 01, 2008


Find & Create BookLists with a New Tool--KSL May Research Spotlight

PatronBooksInPrint, complimentary tool from BooksInPrint database, lets you search genres, favorite fiction characters, award-winners, create lists & more. Create a profile for alerts & favorites, & read about a favorite year with top 10 lists.

- Get full-page value-added information on a title: Path to Power, Robert Caro's first volume about LBJ, includes cover art, synopsis, & reviews of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner of 1982...
- Browse fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, mystery and click through to the Case Catalog (and then to OhioLINK, too) to find copies.
- Browse nearly 100 subject categories like Consumer Behavior, Negotiating, Workplace Culture & find details in a category (in Travel, read about countries & continents, Cruises, Essays & Travelogues, Maps & Atlases, Parks, Restaurants & more.)

Go Back In Time—What's Your Favorite Year? (1895-2006)
Use PatronBooksInPrint database to profile a year—lists of the 10 fiction & non-fiction books, plus commentary in The Year At a Glance... where you'll find Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a new Dow Jones high, ragtime revival, and Vietnam troops coming home (1973). Try your favorite year in PatronBooksInPrint, the May KSL Research Spotlight!

Available to you through BooksInPrint, from the database list.
(VPN activation & Case ID/password authentication required.)

Posted by Karen Oye on May 1, 2008 11:02 PM