EnCompassCulture

EncompusCulture is a good source of books for Reader's advisory. It is easy to use to library staff and to customers as well. If a customer does not know what to choose to read but he or she wants something from general fiction. We can just click on General fiction icon and then there are 12 categories for customer to choose. Customer can choose one or more than one categories. Say, the cusomer wants to have a general fiction book on relationships and humour; she can choose those two icons and click go. There come a list of books matching her choice.

I feel this site is extremely British. I will recommend this site to customers who are especially interested in British and Commonwealth authors. This is also its limitation. I tried to look for Stieg Larsson, Jodi Picoult and Dan Brown. No result came out from my search. When I looked up Lee Child, only one book turned up; not the one I expected - 61 hours. I did another search on Stephenie Meyer and only one booked showed up. Twightlight saga was not there.