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 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran