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What's the Fourth Harry Potter Book?
Some of the best things in life—the best online resources, anyway— really are free. For example, I don't know what my department would do without Mid-Continent Public Library's amazing Juvenile Series and Sequels resource.
Wondering the order of the Betsy-Tacy books? Getting Anthony Horowitz's series mixed up in your mind? Browse thousands of children's and YA series by author name, series title, book title, and series subject. You'll get a neat list in clean text of series in sequential order!
My department uses this resource just about every day, sometimes several times a day. Very rarely have I found errors or omissions.
Actually, I do know what we'd do without without this resource: we'd go to Amazon.com and deal with long load times and multiple edition/publication date confusion. But we don't have to, because MCPL has put this absolutely fantastic resource out on the web, free for all.
Looks like MCPL also has a weekly radio show, The Library Guys. Each week they interview an author and plug library programs. Many of their author interviews are available for download. I sense a definite bias toward mystery and suspense for adults, but still: cool!
Lisa,
Thank you so much for this fabulous resource. I need this kind of information all the time. It's much easier to use than some of the other databases I've tried. Plus, it's free!
-Susan (who spent lots of time on Amazon this morning trying to figure out various series so she could order the titles her store was out of).
Yay, I'm so glad it will be helpful to you! I've used it 50 bajillion times without it even crossing my mind to post about it, until today. You were actually one of the people I thought of when I was writing this up-- or rather, I was thinking, I wonder if it would be useful to bookseller-types like Susan as well as librarians? So, again, yay. :-)
I use this resource all the time, too! It is so, so helpful.
It makes me wonder what other awesome resources public libraries are offering that I don't know about yet! My department's recommended reading lists get a lot of hits, and we've gotten some nice comments on our storytime blog. Tons of other libraries must have their own cool niche offerings.