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FROM: "Vassallo, Anita" <[removed]@CO.MO.MD.US>
REC'D: 2/3/03, 1:33 PM

Hi all - Does anyone know if the Series and Sequels portion of Bookbrowser been retained in it's new incarnation as part of the Barnes and Noble website? If so, where can it be found? Anita Vassallo, Germantown Library, Germantown MD

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FROM: [removed]@msln.net
REC'D: 2/3/03, 1:55 PM

I hope someone else has a better answer than I do.

I could find series listed only deep within each subject/genre. For instance,
in Fiction and Literature, I had to click Fiction Subjects, then scroll way
down to Fiction Series, then click "More Series", and then I was presented with
a list of some of the most popular fiction series (Left Behind Series, Brother
Cadfael Series, etc.) mixed in with publishers' series (Modern Library Series,
Vintage Contemporaries Series, etc.)

That's disappointing enough, but even when series are listed, they are listed
by publication order, bestselling order, price order, or title order, but not
by the order in which they should be read. And publication order can be
misleading with paperbacks and hardcovers mixed together.

~ Molly
--
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library, Maine
Weblog: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

Quoting "Vassallo, Anita" <[removed]@CO.MO.MD.US>:

> Hi all - Does anyone know if the Series and Sequels portion of Bookbrowser
> been retained in it's new incarnation as part of the Barnes and Noble
> website? If so, where can it be found? Anita Vassallo, Germantown Library,
> Germantown MD
>
>
>
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FROM: "Maureen OConnor" <[removed]@bramlib.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/3/03, 2:06 PM

Anita, this doesn't answer your question about the BookBrowser series lists (my understanding is that a large part of the content did not move with the name to B & N), but I can suggest some other sites that are good for series:

Everyone knows about Kent District Library, but just in case there's someone out there who doesn't, I'll give the info here, along with some other sites:

Kent District Library What's Next database
http://www.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp

Saskatoon Public Library Novels in Sequence
http://spldatabase.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca/novelsquery.htm

Series, Sequels, Sequences and Associations
http://my.execpc.com/~wgraczyk/series.html

Thompson Nicola Regional District Library system Adult Series REading List
http://222.tnrdlib.bc.ca/RecommendedReading/ReadingLists/series2.shtml

Hope this helps the situation a bit.

Maureen

"Never apologize for your reading tastes." Rosenberg
____________________________________________

Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Public Library
[removed]@bramlib.on.ca

All opinions expressed above are mine alone.

FROM: [removed]@msln.net
REC'D: 2/3/03, 2:16 PM

The sites Maureen listed are good. We provide links to those and to some genre-
specific series sites: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm#ser

~ Molly
--
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library, Maine
Daily Weblog: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

Quoting Maureen OConnor <[removed]@bramlib.on.ca>:

> Anita, this doesn't answer your question about the BookBrowser series lists
> (my understanding is that a large part of the content did not move with the
> name to B & N), but I can suggest some other sites that are good for
> series:
>
> Everyone knows about Kent District Library, but just in case there's someone
> out there who doesn't, I'll give the info here, along with some other
> sites:
>
> Kent District Library What's Next database
> http://www.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp
>
> Saskatoon Public Library Novels in Sequence
> http://spldatabase.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca/novelsquery.htm
>
> Series, Sequels, Sequences and Associations
> http://my.execpc.com/~wgraczyk/series.html
>
> Thompson Nicola Regional District Library system Adult Series REading List
> http://222.tnrdlib.bc.ca/RecommendedReading/ReadingLists/series2.shtml
>
> Hope this helps the situation a bit.
>
> Maureen
>
> "Never apologize for your reading tastes." Rosenberg
> ____________________________________________
>
> Maureen O'Connor
> Brampton Public Library
> [removed]@bramlib.on.ca
>
> All opinions expressed above are mine alone.

FROM: [removed]@carmel.lib.in.us (Maureen Socha)
REC'D: 2/3/03, 2:16 PM

Stop You're Killing Me - www.stopyourekillingme.com - also does a good job
for listing the order of series. Other information included are series by
characters, other books such as non-fiction by the authors, and any
pseudonyms for the authors.

Check it out!

At 02:57 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Anita, this doesn't answer your question about the BookBrowser series
lists (my understanding is that a large part of the content did not move
with the name to B & N), but I can suggest some other sites that are good
for series:
>
>Everyone knows about Kent District Library, but just in case there's
someone out there who doesn't, I'll give the info here, along with some
other sites:
>
>Kent District Library What's Next database
>http://www.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp
>
>Saskatoon Public Library Novels in Sequence
>http://spldatabase.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca/novelsquery.htm
>
>Series, Sequels, Sequences and Associations
>http://my.execpc.com/~wgraczyk/series.html
>
>Thompson Nicola Regional District Library system Adult Series REading List
>http://222.tnrdlib.bc.ca/RecommendedReading/ReadingLists/series2.shtml
>
>Hope this helps the situation a bit.
>
>Maureen
>
>"Never apologize for your reading tastes." Rosenberg
>____________________________________________
>
>Maureen O'Connor
>Brampton Public Library
[removed]@bramlib.on.ca
>
>All opinions expressed above are mine alone.
>
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FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcounty.ca.gov>
REC'D: 2/3/03, 5:06 PM

There really is not much left of the old site. I wonder if this is a case
where all that was really wanted by B&N was the name. I walked through the
animated Bookbrowser demo. - seems to function as a keyword search for B&N
with very limited means for searching in any other way. Librarian's Index to
the Internet has certainly downgraded its assessment of the site.

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/3/03, 7:26 PM

I'm thinking of using the data I've collected for my bibliographical project
to put up a website devoted to series--not just the ones BookBrowser had,
but many they didn't, OP as well, and kids' series too. I would plan to
call it theseriessite. Do you think it would be cricket? I can't see why
anyone would be troubled by it, because it would emphatically *not* be just
a rehash of the Series & Sequel page.

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FROM: Lesa Holstine <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/5/03, 6:20 PM

I'm sorry to say we discontinued our link to the
Bookbrowser site when it became part of Barnes &
Noble. I'm responsible for the Reader's Advisory
portion of our library system's web page. We don't
link to Amazon, and we're not going to link to Barnes
& Noble. And, I was also disappointed with the
content once it went over. In the past, I used this
web site as an important part of the Reader's Advisory
class I teach for the library system, so I was
disappointed that I had to have the web master pull it
from our web site.

Lesa Holstine
[removed]@yahoo.com
Ft. Myers, FL

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FROM: [removed]@msln.net
REC'D: 2/5/03, 6:31 PM

We also removed the links to Bookbrowser's lists after it became part of B&N,
because it's just not very useful anymore.

~ Molly Wms.
--
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library, Maine
WPL: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/index.htm
Daily Weblog: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

Quoting Lesa Holstine <[removed]@yahoo.com>:

> I'm sorry to say we discontinued our link to the
> Bookbrowser site when it became part of Barnes &
> Noble. I'm responsible for the Reader's Advisory
> portion of our library system's web page. We don't
> link to Amazon, and we're not going to link to Barnes
> & Noble. And, I was also disappointed with the
> content once it went over. In the past, I used this
> web site as an important part of the Reader's Advisory
> class I teach for the library system, so I was
> disappointed that I had to have the web master pull it
> from our web site.
>
> Lesa Holstine
> [removed]@yahoo.com
> Ft. Myers, FL

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