RE: [ALCTS-acqnet] [External] Popular Reading Collections at Academic Libraries

Hello Mark!

So this is really interesting!  We have traditionally NOT purchased for popular reading; it does not align with our collection development policy. However, we know there's a demand, so we've finally decided to budget for Brodart's McNaughton Bestsellers Collection. We won't be buying books, just leasing them. We were planning to key off of the NYT Bestseller list as well, mostly for non-fiction. But, as you say, this may not align with the college-age demographic, I as well am not sure the NYT lists reflect that.

I'd be interested to see a summary of your responses, if you got any!

Thanks!

Julie


Julie Kliever
 Collections Services Librarian
 Phillips Memorial Library
 Providence College
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Subject: [External] [ALCTS-acqnet] Popular Reading Collections at Academic Libraries

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

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