Anyone with a Wauconda Area Library card now has access to NoveList, a reader's advisory database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. 

NoveList allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. By looking up a favorite book in NoveList, you can click the "Find Similar Books" button (at the top of the title record) and search for more titles like the one you enjoyed. NoveList also allows you to enter your own descriptive terms in Describe a Plot. The Boolean Search allows you to search specific parts of the title record, such as reviews. Users can also browse book lists by category, genre, or theme at every reading level through Explore Fiction, and look for award-winning titles in Best Fiction. Many title records have direct links to Web sites with information about the author.

Besides locating books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks. These features have been developed specifically with NoveList users in mind, offering support for librarians, teachers, and individual readers. The For Staff Only section provides additional support for readers' advisory. Hypertext links from title records allow the user to go directly to articles or guides that mention the title, as well as to the lists in Explore Fiction or Best Fiction where the titles appear.

For schools, NoveList has added a "Features for Teachers" button at the top of the homepage and the New Search page. If you are a library media specialist or a teacher, this page leads you to essential curriculum-related articles and teaching guides. These materials provide support for the increased use of literature in the classroom and across the curriculum. There are articles and guides for all grade levels from pre-school through high school.   For school media specialists and teachers there are Standards-Based Thematic Units and Picture Book Extenders, as well as specific teaching guides for using fiction in the classroom.

NoveList provides full title records of fiction for all ages, including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Updated monthly, the NoveList database integrates information from a variety of sources. The title records include full-text reviews for adult, young adult, children's and easy fiction titles from several journals, including: Booklist, School Library Journal, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. In addition to these reviews, there are annotations and summaries, and all of them are searchable!

NoveList adds about 9,000 new fiction records to the database per year, along with reviews and descriptions when they are available. The browsable book lists in Explore Fiction are periodically revised, and the awards lists in Best Fiction are updated along with the full database each month. New Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks are also added monthly.

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...from computer located in Wauconda Area Library

OR

...from computer located elsewhere (i.e., home or workplace)

Please note:
If you wish to use this service from a computer outside the Wauconda Area Library, you will need your user User ID and password, available only to Wauconda Area Library patrons with a current library card.  

User ID:   s9064264
Password:   password