Thursday, March 5, 2009

Posting #53: "Books, Readers and Beyond: Finding Books Online" Exercise # 1

1) In order to quickly find bookstores near the library, I typed the library address in on Mapquest then typed in "bookstores" and immediately the nearby ones came on the screen with a nifty little map detailing their locations. As I suspected, Half-Price Books was the closest destination followed by Barnes and Noble and Borders (which happen to be across from one another...just a major blvd. separating them).
Each of the bookstores has a website but each are a bit different. On the Half-Price Books site, you cannot search for books as their books are generally used and the stock constantly rotates. There is a search box which will take you to Amazon.com. The Half-Price site is fun to click around on and the main pages informer readers that the is a 10% discount card for educators ... and LIBRARIANS!! The Barnes and Noble site as well as the Borders site are similar with searching capabilites. They are: http://www.bn.com/ and http://www.borders.com/) Both are easy to navaigate and full of information on the latest books, DVD's and more.

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