Jan 22, 2015
BookBrowse Receives Gold in Modern Library Awards
Saratoga, Calif. January 22, 2015 - BookBrowse.com announced it has received a Gold Award from LibraryWorks' prestigious Modern Library Awards.
The Modern Library Awards were created to recognize the top products in the library industry in an unbiased format. Products were submitted in the Fall using a simple application, and then were posted on a private site with an enhanced description and attendant materials. These products were batched into small groups and sent to the LRG database of more than 80,000 librarians at public, K-12, academic, and special libraries. Only customers with experience with these products in their facilities were permitted to judge the products, resulting in an unbiased score.
Each judge scored the product on a numeric basis from 1-10. Scores above a 6.5 average were issued awards based on scoring level.
"We are honored to be recognized for the services we provide to libraries and their patrons. With the large number of books published each year, it is difficult to cut through the noise - but BookBrowse.com delivers recommendations of the latest books in a wide variety of genres," said Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse.com CEO and Publisher. "We also go beyond the book to deliver in-depth back stories, reading guides, readalikes, and a broad range of other resources for the ardent booklover."
As a readers advisory tool for libraries, BookBrowse delivers:
- Reviews of fiction and non-fiction books
- Twice monthly online magazine
- Recommendations by genre, setting, theme, time
- Thousands of readalikes by book and author
- 'Beyond the Book' articles and interviews
- Previews of notable books publishing soon
- Resources for book clubs, including reading guides, recommendations & advice
- One-click link to relevant book in library OPAC
"The Modern Library Awards were developed to recognize outstanding products for libraries," says Jennifer Newman, associate publisher and MLA program manager. "BookBrowse was selected as one of the leading services for librarians and being honored with the Gold distinction says a lot about how much the library marketplace values BookBrowse."
For more information about BookBrowse.com and its products, please visit
https://www.bookbrowse.com/press_info or call 1.800.745.5306 x 101
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About the Modern Library Awards Program
The Modern Library Awards (MLAs) is a product-review program designed to recognize elite products in the market which can help library management personnel enhance the quality-of-experience for the library user and increase the performance of their library systems.
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About BookBrowse for Libraries
BookBrowse.com is a readers' advisory tool that covers thousands of books in a wide variety of genres. Through the twice-monthly
BookBrowse Review, members receive the latest book recommendations, related beyond the book features, sneak previews of upcoming books and more. Each featured book on BookBrowse.com is backed by a professional review, an extensive beyond the book feature, readalikes, excerpts, author biography and more. Reading guides and related resources make BookBrowse.com an invaluable resource for book clubs.
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About BookBrowse
Mission
BookBrowse is your guide to exceptional books. Because people don’t have the time to read about every book, let alone
read all of them, BookBrowse seeks out and recommends only the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction. We
recommend high-quality, well-written books across a range of genres, mainly for adults, with some outstanding YA books
that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
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Visitors
BookBrowse is a destination for avid readers of intelligent fiction and narrative nonfiction, particularly book
clubbers and those who read to expand their horizons. Readers visit BookBrowse looking to find out what’s new, and
to explore their specific reading interests in a carefully curated environment that allows them to bypass the noise
of less selective and crowd-sourced sites to easily find the books that are right for them.
BookBrowse offers free and premium content, with subscription options for
individuals and
libraries,
so that all patrons can access from anywhere at any time.
Research
BookBrowse has been researching readers and book clubs for more than 15 years, during which time weve researched
more than 20,000 readers and book club members. Published research includes: "Book Clubs in the US" (2015),
"The Inner Lives of Book Clubs" (2019) and "Book Clubs in Lockdown":
https://www.bookbrowse.com/wp
Contact
Email
We suggest you use the
contact form to send emails to BookBrowse. You can also
email us
direct but using the form is best to avoid messages getting filtered as spam and overlooked.
Telephone
Toll Free USA & Canada: 1-800-745-5306 (except Alaska & Hawaii)
Mail
BookBrowse
88 White Horse Rd,
Plymouth,
MA 02360
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