Series Archives - Gardiner Public Library

Non-Fiction Series in the Library

September 30, 2017 by Ginni Nichols, Children's Librarian

I would like to introduce some wonderful non-fiction book series that are available at our library for both children and adults. Just type in these titles into our catalog and it will come up with all different subjects from planets, wars, holiday, people, energy and etc.

You Wouldn’t Want To Be – This series is very popular with children.

Celebrations In My World – Teaches children about the many Holidays that we celebrate.

A True Book – Varies from planets, biographies, food, our senses and many more.

A Wicked History – Children can learn about some evil individuals who twisted the course of history.

Next Generation Energy – Tells about energy from the sun, wind, earth’s core, etc.

Shockwave – Has many helpful subjects pertaining to science, social studies and much more.

“Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, ever websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.” – Jon Scieszka

Things I love about library patrons

June 5, 2017August 29, 2015 by Ginni Nichols, Children's Librarian

Twelve things I love about our library patrons (children, students and adults)

1. Seeing our regular summer patrons come back after winter

2. Having them ask for a certain book or helping them find a new series or item

3. The little gifts they surprise us with

4. Making their day when a certain book or movie comes in

5. Making our day brighter by coming in to the library

6. One human being helping another human being

7. Having a personal connection with a patron

8. Seeing them enjoy a program that we put on

9. Hearing them tell us about a book or item they enjoy immensely

10. Being able to share our family stories and pictures with them and them sharing theirs

11. Helping them with their family histories or with the history of their home

12. They make me smile every day that I work at the library

Thanks to the wonderful people who make my work days so enjoyable.

Ginni Nichols, YA Librarian

MARVELous Invitational Week 5 – NoveList Plus

May 31, 2017November 3, 2012 by Gardiner Public Library

This week, we discover NoveList Plus. This is a database I use a few times a week, so I’m looking forward to learning more!

The first part of the exercise is to search for a series I am interested in. Since I just finished one of Jude Deveraux’s Edileannovels, I type Edilean in the search bar, click the Series radio button, and then Search. This new page gives me a link to the author, a description of the series, and the genre among other things.

Scrolling down the page I have a list of titles in the series, the order of the series and since I have the View set to Detailed a bit about each title. I have the option of changing the View to Grid, Brief or Title Only. Depending on what I need, and/or if I intend to print the results, these options will be extremely helpful.

As a series reader, there are pieces of NoveList Plus that are extremely helpful, but I have to say that I still will use FictFact.com first. I do a quick comparison of the these two sites, looking at the title only, and FictFact has an extra title (it is an EBook), as well as the next title due in the series, with the estimated publication date.

The next piece of this exercise is to see how the Read Alike section works. Following the directions I change my search criteria to Author and search for an author. This time I check the right side of the page, at the Read Alikes from NoveList section. There are nine authors, shown three at a time. Resting my cursor on the file folder next to an author gives me information about the author, as well as why NoveList Plus feels this author is a Read Alike. If I click on the Print All button in this same box area, I have the ability to see and print a bit about all nine of the authors. Thinking about it, I’m not sure that I have ever seen more than nine authors listed at a time – just an observation.

I do find this to be a very helpful aspect of NoveList Plus, how many times has someone come to me having just read the best book ever, and what do we have just like it?

NoveList Plus has a section of Book Discussion Guideswhich is a tool that we will use. Another interesting resource is Award Winners. What a great place to find an Edgar Allan Poe Award or the International Horror Guild Awards.

There is a resource that will come in very handy in the future – Made Into Movies. This seems to be a recurring theme here in Gardiner; one of the teachers in the area does a “Read the Book and Watch the Movie” assignment.

This is definitely a great database, and one I will continue to use frequently.