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Australian and New Zealand websites for readers' advisers

Details of our Rewarding Reading training course.

Books and reading

  • Search Libraries Australia - find out what's held in Australia's libraries
  • LibraryThing - catalogue your own book collection online; connect with people who read the same things; find books with similar tags and see suggestions for similar books you might like
  • Fantastic fiction - bibliographies for over 10,000 authors; information on over 200,000 books
  • Whichbook.net - this UK site has an interesting and different way of retrieving recommendations for fiction reading
  • Australian and New Zealand readers' advisory resources

    There are numerous websites devoted to readers advisory information and resources. The select list below includes sites useful for readers' advisers interested in information about Australian and New Zealand books and authors:
  • AustLit - online resource for Australian literature [subscription product]
  • Australian Book Review - broad, independent coverage of the latest books and ideas
  • API Review of Books - an online monthly produced by the Australian Studies Centre at Curtin University of Technology in association with the Australian Public Intellectual Network
  • Good Reading magazine
  • Book Choice - recommendations and reviews of new books published in Australia
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) websites, such as Books (ABC Arts Online)
  • Books Alive - an Australian Government initiative that aims to encourage all Australians to experience the joys of reading
  • The Australian Government's Culture and Recreation Portal - the section on literature and books has 18 long pages of links
  • Australian Booksellers Association
  • Australian Publishers Association
  • Australian Society of Authors
  • Inside a dog - a website for young people about books
  • Australian Authors and Illustrators for Young People
  • Books and Reading for Young People - with an Australian bias
  • Children's Book Council of Australia
  • Classic Australian Works, hosted by Sydney University Press. Classic Australian Works uses digital printing technology to print books on demand and deliver them to consumers worldwide
  • The Project Gutenberg Library of Australiana - Australian writers and works about Australia
  • New Zealand Book Council
  • Romance Writers of Australia
  • A select list of Australian and New Zealand library readers' advisory websites:
  • Read Books, Magazines, Newspapers - ACT Virtual Library (ACT Public Library)
  • Good Reads - Christchurch City Libraries
  • Book Lovers' Web-sites - Coffs Harbour City Library & Information Service
  • Book Guides and Author Interviews - Inner West Information (Sydney)
  • Reader’s Advisory Service - Southern Tablelands (NSW) Regional Library Service
  • Reading Suggestions - State Library of Tasmania
  • Fiction and non-fiction booklists - Stonnington Library
  • Websites for Readers - Wollongong City Library
  • Australian library readers' advisory e-list, wikis and blogs:
  • AliaREAD – Australian e-list for discussion of readers advisory services in public libraries
  • Readers' Advisory Services wiki - from the NSW Readers' Advisory Working Group
  • NSW Readers Advisory: a blog for NSW Public Library Network staff with an interest in Readers Advisory
  • Novel ideas - Manly Library’s book blog
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