Do you generally find book recommendations from TV or radio programs? If so, then you may want to check out a new feature on Novelist! We don’t have a non-fiction offering for Novelist at GPL, but this is a great tool for fiction books. If you’d like to learn more about Novelist, feel free to stop by the Library and talk to one of our friendly librarians at the 2nd floor Help Desk.
Check out the new Media Mentions offering below:
If a title has Media Mentions, you will see them in two spots on the book’s detail page, as shown in the image below. The five most recent Media Mentions will appear to the right of the book jacket at the top of the page, and the complete list of mentions can be found on the More About This Book tab.
If you’ve already started a search and want to refine it further to see only titles with Media Mentions, you can narrow your results by choosing “Includes Media Mentions” under Additional Limiters on the left side of the search results page, as shown here:
You can find all Media Mentions or titles that have been featured on a specific program, via Advanced Search:
And finally, you can search for Media Mentions by using field code MM, like this, which would show you all the books that have been featured on any NPR program:
