Do you want help finding books to read?

1. Push the F5 key on the keyboard to learn about a database that will help you.To move through the pages of instruction, click on the mouse. Do you want help finding books to read?

2. Got a question about books? What should I read for my book report? What is the next Harry Potter book?

3. We've got an answer!

4. Most are fiction, but some are • “readable” nonfiction. This • includes biographies and poetry. • Has over 200,000 books in the database

5. How to find NoveList Plus

6. Go to http://www.wellscolibrary.org/ • Click on DATABASES Notice that the library’s web address ends with .org - not .com

7. Click on NoveList Plus icon

8. Type in your library card number. • Click on the LOGIN button. You need to type in all 14 numbers without any spaces even though your library card will have spaces between some of the numbers.

9. If you are using a computer in the library, you won’t have to type in your library card number.

10. Start searching!

11. Type the search in the FIND box and click on the SEARCH button. It's that easy! Let's try one.

12. Let's look for books by Gordon Korman Gordon Korman You could have typed in just the last name, but you would have gotten books by many different authors. If the list is long, you might want to search again using the first name.

13. We got 66 books with this search. Notice that the BOOKS tab is highlighted. We’ll look at some of the other tabs later.

14. You can sort the books several ways.

15. Ways to sort the books • Relevance - how closely a book matches your search • Author - could use if you didn’t know the author’s first name • Title • Date descending - puts the newest book first • Date ascending - puts the oldest book first • Popularity • Volume - puts the books in order by series title, then number

16. There’s a quicker way to find books in a series by an author.

17. Click on the SERIES tab. Click on the title of the series to get a list of the books in order.

18. 66 is a lot of books! Can I make the list shorter?

19. You can limit by subject.

20. You’ll probably want to pick your age range before you do any searching. You can limit by age range.

21. Age ranges • Younger kids-birth to 8 years • Older kids-9 to 12 years old • Teens-13 to 18 years old • Adults-older than 18 These age ranges aren’t exact. If you are 9, you might like books in the younger kids group, for example.

22. You can limit to fiction or nonfiction.

23. What happens when you limit her books to nonfiction? Let's search for books by Mary Pope Osborne

25. Why not just look up the author in the library’s online catalog?

26. Reason to use the Library Online Catalog Only get a list of the books the Wells County Public Library owns Can quickly see where the books are shelved in the library Reasons to use NoveList Plus Can get a list of books in a series quickly Can limit the list of books easily Can get suggestions for other books to read

27. Let's go back to the Gordon Korman search and check out some other tabs

28. Click on GRAB AND GO BOOK LISTS These book lists have a book by Gordon Korman on them. You might find other books you’d like.

29. What kind of information is on the book lists?

30. Click on a title and you’ll find out: • Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction • Age level • Popularity • Summary (description of plot) • and other information • Sometimes you’ll find the Lexile (reading level)

32. Read the summary to see if you’d might like the books on the various book lists.

33. You’ll also get book lists in RECOMMENDED READS and WHAT WE’RE READING tabs

34. What’s in the other tabs? Mostly things for teachers and librarians

35. More searches

36. What if you want to find books by Shel Silverstein, but don't know how to spell his name? Notice that as you type, you will often get a list of possible words. Move your cursor to the words you want and click. If you don’t get anything when you search, make sure you are spelling the words right.

37. What happens if you type "stone" in the FIND box? NoveList Plus searches for… books written by an author named Stone and… books with the word Stone in the title and… books with the word Stone in the series name and… books with the word Stone in the plot description

38. Wow! That’s a lot of books! We got 3466 books with this search.

39. How can I limit thelist?

40. Remember you could limit it further,by choosing an age range. You can limit by type of search. By clicking on the AUTHOR button, we only got 278 books

41. You can search for books by • Author • Title • Series • Plot

42. You should do a SERIES search if you know the name of a series and want to know the order of the books. Here we searched for the Harry Potter books. The 8 books in the series will be listed in order.

43. My friend read a book about boys who climb a mountain, but I don’t know the author or title.

44. Try a DESCRIBE A PLOT search

45. Notice that we limited the search by age range, too. Type “boys climb mountain” in FIND box.Click on the DESCRIBE A PLOT button.

46. What if I don’t have any idea what I want to read? Look up the title of a book you like. Then find similar books.

47. Let's look up Island of the Blue Dolphins

48. Notice that you can also find out information about the author from here Click on the title. Then click on FIND SIMILAR BOOKS.

49. Look at the list of subject headings and decide what you liked about the book. Then click on that link. Here’s another way to find a book to read…

50. Check the Browse section