We have had a lease program with Baker and Taylor for years for their
popular reading program. I don't know if they still work with academic
markets (I think we are grandfathered in) but I get a monthly list of new
titles and have a group of staff who help me select 25 titles per month.
Every month, I will also pull the oldest 25 titles to send back to B&T. I
check usage and if the title has over a certain amount of circulation and
is vaguely academic, I may add it to our collection. There is a component
of the lease program where we are allowed to keep books.
http://www.baker-taylor.com/promo_details.cfm?id=233
It has worked out great for us and it's a highly used collection.
We pay for it every year out of a gift fund.
Stacey
Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Library Technical Services
Spring Valley – Room 148
Washington, DC 20016
smarien_at_american.edu
202-885-3842
orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:27 PM Kliever, Julia <jkliever_at_providence.edu>
wrote:
> 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
> One Cunningham Square
> Providence RI 02918
> jkliever_at_providence.edu
> 401.865.2241
> www.facebook.com/pclibrary
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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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