My personal experience with McNaughton, from working in libraries that had
a subscription, and from analyzing collection use of libraries that use
them is that they are not worth the money.
The biggest problem is that the collections are not current. The 'new
arrivals' tend to be heavily padded with titles such as 3 year old James
North Patterson thrillers. If you take the time to go title by title and
select them manually, you might as well just buy them.
These comments are my own, not my employers.
Tony Greiner
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:16 AM, <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Our Learning Resources Center, which serves the College of Education, is
> looking for new ways to quickly get award winners and starred or positively
> reviewed titles onto the shelves. I’m interested in hearing about any
> experiences your libraries may have had with using a McNaughton-like rental
> collection for children and/or YA books. We are just starting to explore
> this possibility and I see that McNaughton does offer such collections. Has
> anyone used this service? Have you used similar services from other
> companies? If so, which ones? What have the pros/cons been?****
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