NoveList Plus
I really love NoveList Plus! At the college library we don't do too much with popular fiction, so it comes in handy for the occasional reader's advisory question we do have. I also sub in a public library, so I have used NLP many times in my job there. Usually it involves series or readalikes. I searched for my favorite character Kay Scarpetta and easily got all of the books by Patricia Cornwell in order of publication. I created an alert to when the next book comes out and also sent myself an email of the citations for the entire series. This is very useful for patrons by phone I'm sure. For read alikes, I learned about Kathy Reichs, Carl Hiaasen, and Lynda LaPlante, none of which I have read. For collection development, seeing the entire list of works by an author I know is popular is very helpful. I can then see if we have it, or if it is available in the MaineCat system, and if not, then perhaps we should add it to our collection. I also searched for a book I am currently reading, The Art Forger by Shapiro and was very interested in the Lists & Articles section which brought up an article by Joyce Saricks. I also found alot to read on my favorite subject, art forgery and art theft.