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 Academic libraries are just beginning to take
advantage of the
opportunity to encourage recreational or leisure reading by using the
Internet to create virtual browsing rooms for their students, and at
present there are not many examples. In the absence of a browsing
collection in the library, a web site can provide information on the
availability of popular fiction and best sellers in the library
collection. Additional information such as annotations, book reviews, or
information about the author are easily linked to the site. Links to
other Internet sites for the various genres, authors, reviews, and book
discussion groups allow students to discover other titles or authors of
interest. By using the Web in this manner, academic libraries can still
acknowledge the importance of recreational reading to the college student.
Deaf in
Literature from the Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of
Technology
http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/deafinlit.html
DeVry Dupage Library
--lists new books added to the library collection
http://www.dpg.devry.edu/library/
New Book
Shelf from Oral Roberts University. Includes lists of new books by
month and subject.
Virtual New
Book Shelf from the Northwestern University Science-Engineering
Library.
Mulford
Library New Book Shelf
Mulford Library New
Books (Nursing) New books have an image of the book cover and include
a scanned table of contents.
UCLA
Science and Engineering Library New Book ShelfSubject listing of
new books in the various subject areas.
New
Book Shelf From Cornell University. Includes a link to an image of
the book cover and information from the book jacket. Also a link to a
hold form for patrons.
Dollie's
Corner from Northwestern University. A virtual leisure
reading area. Recreational reading and Internet links.
http://www.ghsl.nwu.edu/dollies_corner.html
Popular Fiction
from the Savage Library at Western State College. An annotated list of
new fiction added to the Rental Collection.
Leisure Reading
in Physics from the Wallace library
http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/phybks.html
Middle Tennesse State
University Library lists new books, best
sellers, readers' advisor, subject guides to resources and
bibliographies.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~library
MMC Newstand on the
Web from Busse Center Library, Mount Mercy
College.
http://www.mtmercy.edu/lib/newstand.htm
New
Leisure reading at Russell Library from the Ina Dillard Russell
library Georgia College State University.
http://Peacock.GAC.PeachNet.EDU/~techserv/leisure.html
.
Popular
Books on Browsing from the University of South Carolina. A
list
of new books with links to plot summaries.
http://www.sc.edu/library/catalog/browsing/poplar.html
http://www.sc.edu/library/catalog/browsing/brows.html (Browsing
Home Page).
Readers
Advisor for Information and Computer Science Heyward
Ehrlich's
book length essay and annotated bibliography on resources available on
this subject.
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/clbook1.html
Literature
and Medicine from the New York University School of Medicine.
Annotations and on-line texts of short stories, poems, etc. about
medicine. Other lists include films,audio links, and works of art.
Reader's Advisory
from MTSU University Library, a virtual reading
room.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/read.html
Romance Novel
Database from Christiana Powell at the
University of
Michigan. Many annotations and reviews as well as links to
resources in the genre.
http://www.sils.umich.edu:80/~sooty/romance/
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