Thirteen

This assignment seemed rather futile, if you don't mind me saying so. Soundsnap was interesting, and by that I mean annoying. Lots of sounds of humans being punched and otherwise tormented; I guess we could use that on the website to suggest the fate of patrons who don't return books. I did download a lovely female-scream-in-a-B-horror-movie sound, but there's even less utility in that than the mayhem effects. Ditto the rain-under-the-trees. I can't imagine there being a use for this, but I don't have much imagination, I'm sure.
I liked Last.fm best, it seemed to be organized in a helpful manner but I didn't find anything of interest in the short time I visited the site.

Twelve

I've used Novelist a lot but I'd never noticed the series title button before. I tried several mystery series but didn't come up with any results. Finally, I typed in "Perry Mason" and got the ever-so extensive list of Mr. Erle Stanley Gardner's works, such as The Case of the Grinning Gorilla, The Case of the Haunted Husband, and The Case of the Negligent Nymph. Classy stuff indeed. The Book Lush regrets to say that she has actually read some of this appalling tripe, and it's not too bad. Next, I looked David McCullough in author read-alikes, and was given Stephen Ambrose, Nathaniel Philbrick, Joseph Ellis, and Caroline Alexander as reasonable facsimilies. Finally, I went to Recommended Reads and found some interesting subgroups of memoirs: the addiction memoir, the mental illness memoir and the moving-to-the-country memoir. This could actually be quite useful if a patron came in and wanted to read something like James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (only factual, of course). Then our helpful library staff could look under addiction memoirs and find something appropriate. I like Novelist because you can read reviews of books, and even search for "starred reviews" items.

Eleven

I was not personally thrilled by any of these. The Reading Group Guides could be helpful for book club types, Bookreporter had a features section that would be good maybe for book display ideas or something. There was nothing that I wanted to look at for my own self's sake, though.
I looked up Philip Kerr on the BRC -he wrote the Berlin Noir trilogy which I love; he also apparently writes "techno-thrillers", which sounds like a ghastly genre to me.

Ten

I was too cool to watch the Ebsco tutorial, too much of an expert, ya know. So I went ahead and looked up vacuum cleaner reviews in Consumer Reports. I already have a good vacuum, which I bought without consulting product reviews, because, again, I'm too cool. Then I looked up Albert Schweitzer on the Biography Research Center. I had a childhood jones for him, I don't know why, except that he was a do-gooder and I like do-gooders. He was a versatile and multifaceted fellow-he had a doctorate in theology and philosophy, then became a medical doctor and worked in West Africa. He was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. Great hair, too.