HI, All!
I was asked to post the query here as well as Colldv, so I apologize for any
duplication in your inboxes.. I'm fleshing the question out a bit here, too.
I did a quick archives search for the past year on Colldv and found nothing on
how librarians are purchasing for popular reading collections. We really want
to move away from NYT Best Sellers and concentrate on titles that the college
demographic wants. Any thoughts? Any forums for sharing popular novels on
various campuses with other potential purchasing academic libraries?
For example, the recent literature shows that college students want more
science fiction and fantasy as well as other genres, these are things that the
NYT BS list doesn't do so well and Amazon can help a little. (Ah for the old
days of Book Circles on Amazon!). A friend suggest Book Riot (as well as Good
Reads), but I think it would be useful to have communications between academic
librarians with regard to what is flying off the shelves at individual
campuses fiction-wise.. Or maybe it already exists! Or maybe that's just me!
Or maybe it's Maybelline?
Anyway, what tools are y'all using for collection development?
Thanks!
Mark
mark.allan_at_angelo.edu
Received on Wed Nov 21 2018 - 19:02:29 EST