Thursday, September 23, 2010

Week 6 - EnCompassCulture - the global bookclub

Two weeks later i finally managed to get some time to have a look at the rest of my WEb 2.0. EnCompassCulture seems to be quite interesting and exciting!! I went and did the search for the Humourous Travel books and found some pretty cool stuff there. Then I went and did some more searches of my own. The children's section was quite enlightening and so was the teenagers section. This seems to be one of those sites that have people like me in mind, book lovers!!
I think this maybe very useful to those customers who come and ask us, "Please do you have a book for my 8-year old who only likes adventure books?". This would be the ideal site to guide them to. Library staff who want to help customers find alternate titles or genres for customers would also benefit hugely from this. Not only would staff be able to point out good reads but recommend if they want to join the site and submit reviews, take part in online reading groups and chat amongst like minded literary enthusiasts. I would definitely try to promote this to those who are as excited about books and reading like me!!

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