Help your library visitors explore and share their passion for books.  Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics.  The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this online resource leverages the Internet’s unique capacity to create, build, communicate with and sustain communities of readers.   With an up-to-date and configurable interface, and a unique Open Web component, Books & Authors offers libraries of all kinds a powerful tool that promotes the discovery of literature, and where to find it in your library. Backed by a team of hand-picked genre experts, Books & Authors connects readers with books and provides a number of key benefits to your library, including:
  • Increase circulation of fiction and non-fiction
  • Build and promote book clubs and programmes in your library
  • Help visitors make informed reading choices

Powered by Gale's popular What Do I Read Next? series, Books & Authors combines both browseable menus and visual search technology to guide readers from every level of reading proficiency to books that match their interests. Access your next great read via:

  • Author Search
  • Title and Series Search
  • "If you like..." Search
  • Author, Title and Genre Browse
  • Awards Search
  • Who, What, When, Where — Graphical Search
  • Advanced Search
Books & Authors turns a page in delivering information to your library’s users – whether they visit your library, log on to your website from home or subscribe to search alert services that let them know when new titles based on their reading choices have been added to the Books & Authors database.                                                     Books & authors  

Review:

"This readers' advisory tool provides fresh, informative content for all genres and age levels. Its 2.0 functionality lets users sign up for 'My Reading Room' to save books, authors, lists, and past searches; rate and review books and see what others have rated and reviewed; and save and share titles easily via services like del.icio.us and Digg. The Read Alike Wizard and Who, What, Where, When tools provide quick and easy access to recommended reads."  - Library Journal, November 15, 2008   For more information about Books & Authors please contact emea.enquiries@cengage.com