Journal Article

Stalking the Wild Appeal Factor: Readers' Advisory and Social Networking Sites

Stover, Kaite Mediatore

2009

Overview

[...] Melville Dewey gave library staff a system that separated all the reading material by subject area. Ike Pulver, of Shaker Heights (Ohio) Public Library, notes how wonderful it would be if we \"could classify books - fiction, especially - by 'feeling' rather than by subject, or adjectivally (big, fast, exciting, intricate, thought-provoking) instead of nominally (horse, houses, shops, satellites, cheese).\" Library staff are equipped with easy-to-use tools that help them organize their own reading and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in reading areas.\\n Michael Stephens warns the world about \"technolust,\" that \"irrational love for new technology combined with unrealistic expectations for the solutions it brings,\" which will only lead to technostress over the amount and speed of the new tools on the Internet librarians feel they need to keep up with.18 GoodReads, LibraryThing, and Sh el fari aren't the only places readers are exploring for their next book.

• Publisher: American Library Association
• Subject: Advisors / Bibliographies / Cataloging / Cheese / Community Relations / Company Web site/Web page / Evaluation / Fiction / Information technology / Innovations / Internet / Librarians / Libraries / Library operations / Library Personnel / Library science / Library Services / Literature / Networking / New technology / Online social networking / Public Libraries / Readers advisory work / READERS' ADVISORY / Reading / Reading Lists / Reading materials / Satellites / Shops / Social factors / Social networking / Social networks / Social Services / Stalking / Technology application / Web 2.0 / Web sites / Web sites (World Wide Web) / Websites