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The Springfield City Library offers a wide range of Reader's Advisory Services, including online booklists and recommendations. For more information, call 263-6828, ext. 213 or visit your local library branch library.
Your Personalized Reading List
Are you looking for a good book? We can help! Springfield City Library is pleased to offer a personalized reading list service which offers a world of choices for our adult readers. You tell us what you enjoy and are in the mood to read, and we provide you with up to 10 reading suggestions. Personalized reading list forms are available in all library branches, and will be available online soon.
Reader's Advisory Blog
Springfield City Library: A Place for Readers
Check out our reader's advisory blog for news and reviews of upcoming and recently published titles, information about books for our book groups along with comments and summaries from those groups, details about other book-related programming such as author events, and tidbits from both the fiction selector and the publishing world.
Book Groups
Book groups are a great way to learn about new books and authors that you might enjoy. The Library hosts a number of monthly groups that discuss a pre-selected book, or share recent good reads. The world awaits you at groups meeting at the Central Library, East Forest Park, East Springfield, Forest Park, Pine Point, and Sixteen Acres Branches. Visit the Book Discussion Group page to find the best group for you!
Author Events
Author events are another way to expand your reading horizons. The library hosts author events at branches throughout the system. Most events include author readings and lecture, as well as signings. Events may be either stand-alone visits or part of a thematic series. In March of 2008, the Friends of the Springfield Library are sponsoring a series of events with Massachusetts Book Award winning and honored authors.
Adult Summer Reading Club
This year, adults have a summer reading club, too!
Share your ratings and reviews for a book you've read or listened to, and get a chance to win great monthly prizes in July and August. The lucky grand prize winner will receive two tickets to a Red Sox-Yankees game! Click here for all the details!
Online lists
From "Hard Boiled Crime Fiction" to
"African-American Romances in Paperback" we have
booklists to pique your interest!
Additional booklists are available online!
Check out new fiction on order with our monthly list.
Fiction Central
Visit us in the Fiction department at the Central Library, conveniently located on the ground floor!
Free professional help to find you the perfect book!
Reserve high demand titles and check out the newest novels.
Pick up a booklist and find some new favorites.
Browse our displays of seasonal and popular books.
Consult a helpful reader's advisory reference book.
Our selection ranges from What Mystery Do I Read
Next? to Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers.
Browse our extensive sections of genre fiction -
great for romance, science fiction and fantasy,
mystery, westerns, and horror buffs.
Books on tape, books on CD, and large-type books are available too!
Call the Reference Desk at 413-263-6828 ext. 213, your branch library, or use our Askalibrarian service to reserve a book today! |
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