Back To School With NoveList!

GALILEO users now have access to NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 Plus, but what has been added?

NoveList has been the premier readers advisory tool for fiction. This database has tools to help users and librarians match fiction titles and authors to readers’ interests, and to help educators integrate fiction into the curriculum. Now users will find additional tools and content covering nonfiction titles and audiobooks. 

The nonfiction included in NoveList Plus is meant to appeal to readers reading for pleasure and includes biographies, narrative nonfiction, real-life adventure, true crime, and other creative nonfiction; not included are text books and how-to books.

New features in NoveList Plus and NoveList Plus K-8

·     Recommended reading lists on such topics as Adventure Travel, Growing Up Around the World, Animals in Our Lives, Historical Scandals, Scientific Discoveries, Women in Sports, and more! 

      You can also use the  Dewey Number Browse to find recommended titles by Dewey number or the Advanced Search features for audio and nonficton search refinement. 

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Other features still available

• ·         Author, title, and series read-alikes
• ·         Lexile level assignments
• ·         Robust awards and notable books lists
• ·         Book discussion guides
• ·         Picture book extenders
• ·         Common Core resources

This resource is free to all library card holders and can be accessed through our website. Simply follow the steps below and get started!

1. Go to www.afpls.org
2. Click on the link to A-Z Databases on the right hand side of the page under Books, Research & Databases. 
3. Click on the link to GALILEO and enter the password. (If you don't know the current password, find it by following these instructions!)
4. Click on Databases A-Z and type in NoveList Plus.
5. Start searching and get reading!

New Southeast Atlanta Library Community Meeting

Please join us for a project update on the new Southeast Atlanta Library!

New Southeast Atlanta Library Update – Thursday, August 28: 7:00 p.m.

Arthur B. Langford Recreation Center, 1614 Arthur B. Langford Place, SE, Atlanta 30315

The meeting will include a preview of the new building design with architects present to answer questions. The community is invited to meet members of the architectural and engineering team for this project from Stanley Love-Stanley, P.C., in association with Craig Gaulden Davis, along with library team members.

Please attend the meeting and help us in letting others know about this update opportunity!

Community engagement has been the cornerstone of Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System’s Building Program, and we want to update residents about the status of the new library.

If you are not able to attend, questions or comments can be submitted in the following ways:

• Email: librarycomments@fultoncountyga.gov
• Fax: 404-335-5291
• Mail: Branch Services, Central Library, One Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta, GA 30303

Please feel free to contact 404-730-1972 or laura.wright@fultoncountyga.gov if you have any questions. And for more information and updates about the Library Building Program, check our website often! We look forward to seeing you there!

Database Of The Month: Literature Resource Center!

It's back to school season, which means back to homework season as well. But the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System is here to help give you and your grades a boost! Not only can you seek assistance from any of our librarians in our 34 branches, we also have a ton of free databases available 24/7 that will provide you with the tools you need to succeed. Literature Resource Center is an essential one-stop-shop experience for students or researchers in English and Literature. Need to find literary criticisms of Gone With the Wind? How about a biography of Hemingway? Or maybe you wanted to listen to that NPR interview you missed with Tina Fey when she talked about her book Bossypants? Well, you're in luck! Literature Resource Center can find all of this and much, much more.


The world’s most current, comprehensive and reliableonline literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researcher. Its rich critical, biographical and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills. 

In this database you will find full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works of poems, essays and stories, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Students and researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world. And as with many of our other databases, Literature Resource Center makes your research even easier by offering the ability to save, print, email and cite the articles you use. You can even listen to the article being read and download the MP3! 

This resource is free to all library card holders and can be accessed through our website. Simply follow the steps below and get started!

1. Go to www.afpls.org
2. Click on the link to A-Z Databases on the right hand side of the page under Books, Research & Databases. 
3. Click on the icon for Literature Resource Center 
4. Enter the GALILEO password. (If you don't know the current password, find it by following these instructions!)
5. Start searching!