The Reading Bookshelf was created to be a popular information resource site for students, parents, teachers, schools and libraries. It is a free information portal designed to combine school-approved list of books with local libraries online catalogs and provide a simple process for students and parents to search their libraries for available school-approved books.

The Reading Bookshelf is linked to more than 850 libraries and dozens of schools whose numbers grow daily. All the books in a list are selected and approved by each school’s staff and submitted to Reading Bookshelf for publication. If you don’t see your school or library listed, please contact them and us. We want them to be involved.

From a breadth of functionality standpoint, The Reading Bookshelf is really in first grade. Just like children increase their abilities as they move through grades, so do we plan for the Reading Bookshelf. We have lots ideas on how to improve the site and where to grow its functionality over time. We encourage our members to ask questions, send suggestions or critiques so that we can keep this resource useful and helpful. Your input is crucial for our efforts to continue to improve the Reading Bookshelf website.

The Reading Bookshelf portal was created by InfoMesh Technologies, LLC in 2007. InfoMesh is the brain child of 2 fathers (who are software engineers by trade) who intensely enjoy reading books and wanted to pass on that passion to their children by involving themselves in their children’s school-required reading program. To their dismay, they recognized there was no efficient way for them to participate in what books got selected or to find school-approved books from the local public libraries. After further investigation, they discovered that this wasn’t a local problem but that there wasn’t any solution out there that brought the lists of books a particular school approves of and the local public libraries that have those books together into an integrated resource for students, parents, teachers or libraries to use. Thus the 2 fathers put their heads together and the Reading Bookshelf website was born.

The Reading Bookshelf is a completely free resource. When the 2 dads sat down and thought this through, our taxes already paid for the book lists the schools generated and the books that are in the libraries, so why should anyone pay (again) just to see that information integrated? But building, maintaining and improving a website is not cheap, so to pay for the site all revenue is generated by online advertising.

We hope you enjoy this resource.