There have been more than 2,000 quizzes released into the Australian AR quiz store this year. I feel like we are really accelerating the filling of the gaps and I hope that you see this too. There have been a few little hiccups like the odd duplicate or the wrong jacket image appearing on www.ARBookFind.com.au, but all of these are been fixed right now.
With all these new quizzes I have been thinking about how a school matches their library collection to the available quizzes. AR Advantage customers can access AR Bookguide as part of their annual subscription. AR Desktop customers can access the AR Quiz Manager tool developed, sold and supported by Libcode Library Systems. But what about a simple service to help schools just do a one off match of their libraries to the AR Quiz list…
I am not sure that anyone really wants this service, but it might make things very much easier to find quizzes in these new big releases.
So I am offering you a one off free quiz match!
All you need to do is send me an export from your library management system. If you send me a US MARC or MARC21 format file of your library collection, and your reading resources if you want, I will match that to the current quiz list and email you back a spreadsheet detailing the books in your school that matches a current AR Quiz.
You can email me at david.linke@edalliance.com.au