2.2: Online resources that promote reading to adult clients

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Identifying current reading experience and preferences
3. Criteria for evaluation of online resources
4. Evaluation criteria
5. Reader development initiatives for adult clients
6. Reader development websites for adult clients
7. Online resources for reader development for adult clients
   1. Some useful sites
   2. More useful sites
8. Thematic approaches to reader development for adult clients

More useful sites

You may also find these sites useful:

The Radio 4 bookclub on the BBC website links to broadcasting and offers a "listen again" feature. There is a set "Book of the Month" and practical information about setting up reading groups.

Another good reading group linking to mass media, this time to the Mail on Sunday newspaper. Aimed at women readers, this offer email to a friend, reviews, a book of the month and book shop.

Lots of information about poetry but also the fun Poetry Doctor feature which prescribes poetry according to the reader's mood.

Oprah's Books is a media phenomenon in the United States, where any book chosen by Oprah automatically leaps into the bestseller lists. You can use her well-chosen titles for the benefit of your users.

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