One of the features I've appreciated at both Amazon and Goodreads (probably 
elsewhere as well) is the ability for anyone (including librarians) to compile 
their own themed-&-searchable bibliographies and publish them online.

http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=017986067167581999535:4-ekn3oenek

http://www.goodreads.com/list

At Amazon, clicking on the link of any book in the bibliography takes you to 
the page where you can purchase the book. At Goodreads, clicking on the book's 
link takes you to Goodread's page for the book, showing all of the members' 
book reviews for it.

Yesterday, I found out that Worldcat also has a list creation section. When you 
click on the book's hyperlink there, it shows you which OCLC libraries have 
holdings of that book.

Lists may be searched at 
https://www.worldcat.org/webservices/root/search/lists?listquery= and there are 
already lists for Jewish, Israel, and Holocaust books. There's even a Sydney 
Taylor Book Awards list at 
https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/ccicchetti/lists/3070440 listing 34 books 
published between 1969 and 2007. A complete SBTA list would be more helpful 
(especially since the 2012 winners were just announced yesterday), but there's 
no reason why one of us can't just build our own SBTA list there (as well as 
lists of other types of Judaica books).

While AJL's bibliography bank is an excellent and better-organized resource, I 
think these 3 websites have the potential to supplement our "bank" by pointing 
us to additional works.

B'shalom,

Steven M. Bergson
Toronto, Canada


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