Would anyone be able to provide an approximate or range of lease pricing
with Brodart? I've looked at the website and all it says is allowances
without any amounts. Can you start small and then increase? Like database
subscriptions, I'm sure there are a lot of variables to actually getting a
price but before I put too much effort into this, are we talking >$500.00,
>$1,0000, $1,000.00+
Debbie
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:27 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-----
> From: acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org <acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org> On
> Behalf Of Mark Allan
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 7:01 PM
> To: acqnet_at_lists.ala.org
> 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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