As part of a presentation I’m doing for the Biennial National Conference of Librarians Serving Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals, I have gathered together some of my favorite online RA sources. I thought I would share them here.
Keeping track of what you read:
- GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/
- LibraryThing https://www.librarything.com/
Keeping current:
- What’s new to NLS
- Talking Book Topics (http://www.loc.gov/nls/tbt/)
- Braille Book Review (http://www.loc.gov/nls/bbr/index.html)
- Bestseller Lists
- NLS: http://www.loc.gov/nls/networkdocs/bestsellers/index.html
- NYT, LA, WaPo
- In the news
- Shelf Awareness : http://www.shelf-awareness.com/
- EarlyWord: http://www.earlyword.com/
- Coming to Theaters (or TV screens):
- Mid-Continent Public Library http://www.mymcpl.org/books-movies-music/based-book
- Galleys
- Edelweiss: http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/
- Netgalley: https://www.netgalley.com/