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BOOKLIST AND BOOKLIST ONLINE
Q: What is Booklist?
Q: What is Booklist Online, and what is the Booklist Online database?
Q: What is Book Links?
Q: What is included in a Booklist subscription?
Q: How do I subscribe to Booklist or Booklist Online?
Q: Do you review ebooks?
Q: How do I have my book reviewed in Booklist?
Q: How do I review books for Booklist?
Q: How do I advertise in Booklist print and electronic publications?
Q: Why doesn’t the Review of the Day change every day?
ACCESSING BOOKLIST ONLINE
Q: I subscribe to the print Booklist. How do I access Booklist Online?
Q: Why do I get this message: “You have requested a page of Booklist Online that is available only to subscribers.”
Q: Can I use any parts of Booklist Online without a subscription?
SEARCHING, BROWSING, AND REVIEWING RESULTS
Q: Do I need to pay attention to capital letters when I search?
Q: I revised my Advanced Search, changing the items in Booklist Taxonomy, but the results are puzzling.
Q: What parts of a record does a Keyword search scan?
Q: What are Booklist Editors Recommends lists?
Q: Why aren't all of the books discussed in some feature articles linked to Booklist reviews?
Q: How can I read the full text of multiple reviews without going back to the search results?
E-NEWSLETTERS
Q: How do I sign up for Booklist Online e-newsletters?
WEBINARS
Q: How do I register for a Booklist webinar or view an archived one?
TECHNICAL ISSUES
Q: How can I make Booklist Online better fit the way I search?
Q: Nothing happens when I click PRINT to print search results and when I click EMAIL to send them.
Q: I still can't get the EMAIL to go. When I click, I get an error message and then the page returns to the previous one.
Q: Why didn’t the person I sent an email receive it?
Q: What browsers are compatible with Booklist Online?
LEGAL ISSUES
Q: Can I display your RSS feeds on my own site? What is your syndication policy?
If you have a question not covered here, please email Booklist Online at info@booklistonline.com.
BOOKLIST AND BOOKLIST ONLINE
Q: What is Booklist?
A: Booklist is a book-review magazine that has been published by the American Library Association for more than 100 years, and is widely viewed as offering the most reliable reviews to help libraries decide what to buy and to help library patrons and students decide what to read, view, or listen to. It comprises two print magazines, an extensive website and database, e-newsletters, webinars, and other resources that support librarians in collection development and readers' advisory.
Q: What is Booklist Online, and what is the Booklist Online database?
A: Booklist Online is both a free Web site and a database available to all Booklist subscribers. The free site offers a generous selection of frequently updated Booklist content—plus some reviews features written exclusively for Booklist Online. More than 8,000 new recommended-only reviews plus related features are added every year.
The database contains more than 135,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992. Much of that content dynamically linked—review to review, review to feature, and feature to feature.
Q: What is Book Links?
A: A quarterly supplement to Booklist free to Booklist subscribers, Book Links magazine helps teachers, youth librarians, school library media specialists, reading specialists, curriculum coordinators, and others connect children with high-quality literature-based resources.
Book Links articles provide comprehensive information on using books in the classroom, including thematic bibliographies with related discussion questions and activities, author and illustrator interviews and essays, and articles by educators on practical ways to turn children onto reading. Published in October, January, March, and June, each Book Links issue focuses on a core curriculum area, including social studies, multicultural literature, language arts, and science. While all Book Links articles from October 2009 onward are available to Booklist subscribers, select articles from each issue are also made available on Booklist Online.
Q: What is included in a Booklist subscription?
A: All Booklist subscriptions include 22 print issues of Booklist magazine, 4 print Book Links supplements, and 24/7 password-access to Booklist Online (one user name per subscription).
Q: How do I subscribe to Booklist or Booklist Online?
A: Please visit our Subscribe page for more information.
Q: How do I have my book reviewed in Booklist?
A: Please visit our Get Reviewed page for more information.
Q: Do you review ebooks?
While Booklist recognizes the tremendous growth in the area of epublishing, we are presently considering only reference ebooks for review. Our core mission is to assist public and school librarians in selecting new works, and the current uncertainty regarding the delivery and storage of trade ebook originals means that these titles can be difficult for librarians to acquire through normal acquisition channels. We continue to monitor the situation closely, however, and we expect to make an announcement about expanded ebook coverage soon.
Q: How do I review books for Booklist?
A: Please visit our Reviewers to find the contact information for an editor to contact.
Q: How do I advertise on Booklist?
A: Please visit our Advertise page for more information.
Q: Why doesn’t the Booklist Online Review of the Day change every day?
A: We’d love to change it every single day, but our offices are closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
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ACCESSING BOOKLIST ONLINE
Q: I subscribe to the print Booklist. How do I access Booklist Online?
A: To set up access for the first time, have a print issue in hand and go to the registration page. One registration per subscription.
Q: Why do I get this message: “You have requested a page of Booklist Online that is available only to subscribers.”
A: You may not have logged in yet. You need to be logged in as a subscriber or authenticated user (a user with access via an institutional subscription) to get full access to Booklist Online. Enter your Username and Password in the boxes at the top right of any screen.
Even if you have logged in, you may get this message if your session has timed out. If you have spent a long time reading, without clicking on the screen, or if you have stepped away from your search session for several minutes, Booklist Online automatically logs you out. If you get this message, enter your Username and Password in the login boxes as usual. Once you have been authenticated and gained access to Booklist Online again, you may need to initiate the action you had requested before authentication again.
For information about the various subscription options, please visit our Subscribe page.
Q: Can I use any parts of Booklist Online without a subscription?
A: Yes, Booklist Online includes a lot of free content, accessible without logging in, including all content on the HOME page. You may also click on any link on the HOME page and read the resulting content for free. This means than many columns, departments and features of the magazine are available to all readers.
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SEARCHING, BROWSING AND REVIEWING RESULTS
Q: Do I need to pay attention to capital letters when I search?
A: No, searching in Booklist Online is case-insensitive. You can use ALL UPPER CASE or all lower case or a Mixture to search authors, titles, and keywords.
Q: I revised my Advanced Search, changing the items in Booklist Taxonomy, but the results are puzzling.
A: It's difficult to see all the items in Booklist Taxonomy, and previously selected terms are not automatically erased when you click new terms. Scroll through the entire taxonomy to make sure you only have those items selected that you want selected. You might want to click on the brown CLEAR SEARCH button at the top of the Advanced Search screen, which will remove all search criteria and return to default settings.
Q: What parts of a record does a Keyword search scan?
A: In Quick Search, a Keyword search looks through the entire record, including title and review text. In Advanced Search, you may search on Keyword in Title, Keyword in Subject, or Keyword in Review, alone or in combination. Use the drop-down “Search On” boxes to select your fields.
Q: What are Booklist Editors Recommends lists?
A: These are hand-picks read-alikes chosen by the Booklist editors. These are handy tools for making quick readers' advisory recommendations for people who liked the book in question, or books of its type. The editors use a “book sense” that comes from reading millions of pages. If that’s not enough, you can perform a custom search by selecting your favorite subjects in the original review, then ranking them in your preferred order.
Q: Why aren't all of the books discussed in some feature articles linked to Booklist reviews?
A: We are working to add links to all of the books we've reviewed in Booklist. Features such as Top 10s will be fully linked because Top 10 books are chosen only from books we've reviewed. Some award lists, however, were not chosen by Booklist editors and there might not be reviews for all of the books in the Booklist Online database. We provide such lists as a service to our users and link to Booklist reviews when available. (For more about Booklist's recommended-only policy, click here.)
Q: How can I read the full text of multiple reviews without going back to the search results?
A: On your results list, select the reviews you want by checking the box next to each title, then click the VIEW SELECTED ITEMS button at the top or bottom of the page. The full review for the first title you’ve selected will display—just click NEXT to get to the next review.
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E-NEWSLETTERS
Q: How do I sign up for Booklist Online e-newsletters?
A: By following this link. You can also use that link to modify your e-newsletter preferences.
WEBINARS
Q: How do I register for a Booklist webinar or view an archived one?
A: Go to www.booklistonline.com/webinars to see what webinars are upcoming and to link to our archive webinar page.
TECHNICAL ISSUES
Q: How can I make Booklist Online better fit the way I search?
A: You can personalize some of the features of Booklist Online through the My Profile feature, found toward the right on the top navigation bar. Here you can specify new defaults on the Quick Search menu: the field searched, scope and sections, and the order in which results are displayed. You can also create a subject profile from the Booklist taxonomy and receive alerts when Booklist Online is updated.
Q: Nothing happens when I click PRINT to print search results and when I click EMAIL to send them.
A: You must have “Allow pop-ups” enabled on both your Web browser (Internet Explorer, for example) and your Internet security software (Norton, for example) for PRINT and EMAIL to work.
Q: I still can't get the EMAIL to go. When I click, I get an error message and then the page returns to the previous one.
A: Please note exactly what happens and what error message results and discuss this with your system administrator or send the results to info@booklistonline.com.
Q: Why didn’t the person I sent an email receive it?
A: It may be because emails generated in this way are commonly blocked by spam filters or routed to a spam folder. Ask your colleague to check the spam folder and to query his or her system administrator.
Q: What browsers are compatible with Booklist Online?
A: At present, Booklist Online is optimized for use with IE7 or IE8, as well as Firefox. Use of other browsers may occasionally result in anomalies of display and functionality. We apologize if this causes you any inconvenience.
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LEGAL ISSUES
Q: Can I display your RSS feeds on my own site? What is your syndication policy?
A: Booklist Online’s syndication policy follows:
Booklist Online has opened some of its web-based content and made it available via RSS feeds. Orange icons appear next to those sections of our site that are available for syndication. We are happy to provide this service to individuals and nonprofits under the following terms of use.
Terms and Conditions of Use
1. Individuals and nonprofit organizations may syndicate the content of the sections that are specifically made available for syndication (as indicated by the availability of the icons noted above) for noncommercial use without license, permission, or fee. This means you can subscribe to our feeds in an aggregator or redisplay them on your own website without asking us first.
2. Individuals or organizations who wish to syndicate the material for any purpose other than personal or noncommercial can contact Mary Frances Wilkens at mwilkens@ala.org to discuss a syndication license. This means that if you are a commercial entity or if you would like to display content from our feeds on a page on which you are selling or posting ads, you will need to contact us first to discuss this.
3. We reserve the right to deny syndication licenses or ask you to stop displaying our feed, although we’ll do our best to work with you to find a solution that meets everyone’s needs.
4. No modifications may be made to the content of any material that is syndicated and attribution, including links to the Booklist Online website, may not be removed or altered. If you are displaying our content on your site, it needs to be clearly marked as our content. The use of frames or iframes to display our content still requires proper attribution and needs to be clearly marked as Booklist Online content. This also applies to the display of excerpts of our feeds, as well as the full text.
5. Sections of our site that are not made available for syndication (as indicated by the availability of the icons noted above) may not be “scraped” or otherwise syndicated in any manner.
6. You may not store our content on a computer, website, or in any other form outside of the RSS feed. This means you cannot collect the content and maintain a database, archive, directory, or catalog of it, even for personal use. If you’re interested in access to our full suite of content, we would be happy to talk with you about subscription options.
7. These terms apply to private sites, including authenticated ones such as intranets and portals. Please contact us if you have further questions about this.
8. Syndication feeds are provided “as is” without any kind of warranty. We reserve the right to cancel this service at any time, without notice.
If you do syndicate our content on your site, we encourage you to write and let us know, just so we can thank you and answer any questions you may have in the future.
Please address any questions or concerns to Mary Frances Wilkens at mwilkens@ala.org.
If you have a question not covered here, please email Booklist Online at info@booklistonline.com.
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