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murielm99

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7. Read-alikes!
Wed Jul 29, 2020, 02:33 PM
Jul 2020

We provided this service years ago. All kinds of patrons would come in and ask for books this way. They would say something like, "I have read all the books written by Nora Lofts. Do you have any other books by authors who write stories like hers?"

Then we would find those books.

We wrote a grant that listed read-alikes with some other librarians. We kept them in a loose leaf binder. These days, they would be in a computer.

When my brother worked for a music service, he used that idea and found listen-likes.

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