It's like a giant book club that is able to involve authors, publishers, bibliographic records from Libraries and Readers around the world. If used for State Library's website, it allows extensive sharing: authors' promotions of their work (eg. talks they give at State Library's Events can be YouTubed), reviews can be posted, readers can share their views and provide recommendations of other publications of similar field; links to the catalogue records allows physical access to the books, or, referrals to other libraries. This set up can also incorporate special events organised by the Library, such as the Miles Franklin award. How about a section on what staff members of the Library are reading at the moment... Oh, and not forgetting the 'legal deposit' publications. We should have a space for them too.
This site reminds me the pleasure of reading fiction... I think it is in Publishers' interest to promote this tool.
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