#ebsco

[skaraptor]

Many people hate Ebsco but for me Ebsco is my savior. My last resort. When all chances at finding a pdf have failed, Ebsco full text has it for you. I don't care if the interface sucks. Ebsco keeps me from having to leave my house and check out a book from the library. Ebsco I love you forever and ever

[lakecountylibrary]

Hello! I'm working on a presentation for my library's training day about Reader Advisory tools for a new generation. I was wondering, what tools do your library staff use for recommendations? They asked me to focus on YA in particular but I also want to look at more contemporary tools (Storygraph etc.). Thank you for any suggestions!

I love your posts btw!! You have a big fan over in Australia :)

Hello from the states! So pleased you enjoy the blog :D And what an interesting project. We're happy to help!

Of course, we have our Tumblr here. And since our posts aren't responding to actual requests for specific types of books, our reader's advisors just post about whatever they liked - so our posts are all personal recommendations from people who have read the books. Maybe it can be a reader's advisory tool for other librarians! Though they would have to contend with Tumblr's search function...

When we do need to find a rec for someone looking for a good read with specific criteria, and assuming we don't have a good rec off the top of our heads, that's when we pull out the toolkit.

The main tool we use is Novelist Plus. It's an EBSCO tool - here's their product site . It's basically a really specific search engine. You can find author readalikes and even search based on themes like fake relationship, isekai, magical girl, marriage of convenience, etc etc - basically AO3 tags for published novels! Patrons can use Novelist Plus to search by themselves, but many of them do find it difficult to use. Our staff are trained, though, and it's a good tool for when someone asks for a genre or trope we're unfamiliar with.

We also use fantasticfiction.com because it's the easiest way to find info about series. They keep it up to date, and that's the most important thing with a reader's advisory tool!

Those are the main ones staff mentioned. Of course we'll also take a look at Goodreads, Storygraph, and general search engine results if we need to.

I hope that helps! Good luck with your presentation and feel free to ask us follow-ups if you need!

[martianbugsbunny]

have this loq-aulity meme I made for my brother

[princeandreis]

[teenslib]

Education Is Not Pornography

EBSCO, and the Colorado Library Consortium, have been sued by parents seeking to remove EBSCO research databases from Colorado schoolrooms, based on spurious claims that the databases access "pornography." The problem here isn't pornography in library databases. The problem is a group of people who believe their prudery should be public policy.

Students access to EBSCO databases, a valuable education and research tool, is being taken away by Puritanical parents who think that any mention of human sexuality is tantamount to pornography. These parents are materially harming not only their own children’s education and college preparedness, but that of every student in these classrooms. “And let’s be totally clear about this, too: If middle or high school students are looking for sex on the internet, they do notstart with library databases.”

[cscclibrary]

[Images: Series of screencaps showing the steps for using EBSCO’s new Google Drive plugin, detailed in the description to each screencap.]

EBSCO and Google Drive have teamed up to make research even easier!  By connecting your Google Drive account to EBSCO, you can save articles to the cloud, to be accessed anywhere you have an internet connection.  One caveat: judging from the permissions Google grants to EBSCO, which include deleting content from one’s Google Drive, it is possible that the articles you save may disappear after a set time, or if EBSCO’s license to them expires. Nevertheless, this is a remarkable tool for short-term storage, and it means that the resources you acquire from EBSCO databases will be more easily accessible on mobile devices, too.  No more flash drives!

[justforgetthepast-blog1]

Teach. Write Is Now Indexed by EBSCO--Submit Your Work Today

I am excited to share that Teach. Write., dedicated to the creative voices of educators and writers, has been officially added to EBSCO’s research databases. This milestone means greater visibility and academic reach for our contributors. Why EBSCO MattersEBSCO is the world’s largest intermediary between publishers and libraries, serving over 115,000 institutions globally. Their databases are…

Teach. Write Is Now Indexed by EBSCO--Submit Your Work Today

[bmhasdeu]

Descoperiți EBSCO la Biblioteca Municipală „B.P. Hasdeu”

Descoperiți EBSCO – resursa academică esențială, acum accesibilă la Biblioteca Municipală „B.P. Hasdeu”, filiala Biblioteca Publică de Drept (str. Armenească nr. 42) și Biblioteca Centrală (bd. Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt, nr. 148)! Ce este EBSCO? EBSCO este o platformă digitală complexă ce pune la dispoziția utilizatorilor peste 18.200 de reviste full-text, 2.500 cărți, broșuri și ediții de…

Descoperiți EBSCO la Biblioteca Municipală „B.P. Hasdeu”