EnCompassCulture is a worldwide reading group, the place to find your next book and talk about books with other readers from around the world. It has full details of over 10,000 books for all age ranges and is full of useful features such as: reading group ideas, a quiz, reviews, a blog, author interviews and book lists.
If you can do so, view the Flash version of this website - you'll know your pc has Flash installed if the images of the books at the top of the screen are revolving. If the books are not moving then check out the non-Flash version instead.
Please note: Keep in mind that where GoodReads was very American, EnCompassCulture is very British.
Discovery exercise:
- Visit EnCompassCulture
- Check out more about the site - in particular 'Five ways to search and browse'
- Click on the 'Books for Adults' category at the top
- Select a category: Choose Travel
- Select a sub-category: Humorous Travels
- Select GO
- Now that you've mastered the knack of searching for readalike titles/authors, explore this function more (you can search for adult, teen or kids readalikes)
- Create a post and tell us how this site can be used for readers' advisory purposes, consider: how might customers find EnCompassCulture useful? What would library staff get out of this site? Would you promote EncompassCulture to customers? Why/why not?
6 tasks completed! All you have to do now is complete the online survey and post a summary of your thoughts of the overall web 2.0 experience.
Please note the online survey link is now available.
Where to now?
- Write your last blog post and summarise your learning and discovery experience: the good, the bad and the oh-so-butt-ugly.
- Complete the online survey (this link is now available).
