CI 616: Literature for Adolescents

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The Blender is a tool meant to help readers find books that include more than one genre. Using the Blender is easy -- simply pick two or three genres you are interested in and click the "BLEND" button. Your results will include any title from the database that has the genres you selected. If you look at the results, you will notice that some genres will appear in ALL CAPS. This means that the genre is very prominent in the blend. Other genres might be listed in lowercase letters. This means that the genre is a part of the book, but not dominant in the story.

Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of Gnod all is about literature. Gnod is kind of a search engine for literature you don't know about. It will ask you which authors you like and then think about which other authors you might like too. quick survey of three authors you have enjoyed leads you to a suggestion, which then has three options for the user to select: "I like it," "I don’t like it," and "I don’t know." Once you’ve clicked on one of those options, the system supplies the user with a new author, using that option to inform its new author and to inform future associations.

Extensive website for Independent Booksellers from the American Booksellers Association. Booklists, reviews, etc.

The Literature-Map is part of Gnod, the Global Network of Discovery. Literature-Map provides more than one match and visually indicates how similar the options are to the author you started with. For example, if you enter “Jane Austen,” you’ll see the names “Charles Dickens” and “Harper Lee” nearby, while David Sedaris and Terry Pratchett float nearer the margins. Click on another name on the map and that author will be brought to the center.

Provides multiple non-traditional options for finding books. You can search by: mood and emotion, country the book is set in, character and plot, or a familiar bestseller. Note that the "borrow this book" tool in this resource only links to library catalogs in the UK, not the U.S.