We have a lease program through Baker and Taylor. We pay a yearly fee and
it entitles us to a quota of 25 per month - which works out to 20-25 books
a month.
Every 3 months or so, I pull the older titles to send back - I have the
option of keeping titles and I will base that on circulation and subject
and if we don't have it already in our collection. We don't have an
electronic component to the program. I have several people who help me
select - I send the monthly list to my group and then place the order on
the B&T Title Source platform.
The best thing about managing the collection is I pick the books I want to
read and get the title first.
It works very well for us - we have been using B&T for years but I'm not
sure they still have the program for academic libraries - it's more for
public and I think they phased out academic but we were grandfathered in.
It's a very popular program - we pay for it out of a dedicated gift fund.
Stacey
Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University
4801 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 Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:01 AM Rodriguez, Michael <
michael.a.rodriguez_at_uconn.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
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> The UConn Library maintains a leisure reading collection of 300 books,
> which circulate frequently and are a popular feature of the library. We
> lease our books through the McNaughton Lease subscription program
> <https://www.brodartbooks.com/library-services/collection-development/popular-title-subscriptions/mcnaughton-lease>.
> It works, but we’d like to learn what other libraries are doing.
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> How is YOUR library doing leisure reading? Are you purchasing titles
> outright? Are you working with a different vendor (not McNaughton or
> Brodart) to lease titles? Do you have an electronic component of leisure
> reading, such as Overdrive or RBDigital?
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> Thanks in advance for any information you can share!
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> Regards,
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> *Michael Rodriguez*
> Collections Strategist
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> UConn Library
> 369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1005
> Storrs, CT 06269-1005
> Phone: 860-486-9325
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> lib.uconn.edu <https://guides.lib.uconn.edu/WorkingTogether/lib.uconn.edu>
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Received on Thu Jan 30 2020 - 13:35:04 EST