CDL: Paperback Collections response 6

From: John P. Abbott <abbottjp_at_conrad.appstate.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:30:02 -0400 To: colldv-l <colldv-l_at_usc.edu>

[original post followed by response]

From: Katie Boyes <kboyes_at_interchange.ubc.ca>

Hello,

I was wondering how other public libraries deal with paperback
collections.

Currrently our paperbacks are all donations and have brief catalog 
records.We are considering changing our collection of
paperbacks...perhaps 
using only donations and not cataloging them at all, or purchasing 
paperbacks and have our collection be comprised of selected purchases
and 
selected donations.

Thanks for any and all ideas.

---
Katie Boyes
Public Serivces Librarian
Flathead County Library
kboyes_at_co.flathead.mt.us
406-758-5713

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Subject:         RE: CDL: Paperback Collections
   From:         Jim Belcher <belcher_jim_at_hotmail.com>

We have a collection we just started because of a huge gift of good 
condition PBs.  It is all romance novels.  They have their own area.  If
we 
keep a non-fiction PB title, we laminate it and shelve it with the
regular 
collection.  Our fiction PBs are shelved separately and we have a fairly 
large collection of PBs in adult, YA, and children's because we have a
huge 
influx of population in the summer and they prefer PB.  I am new here
and 
the library has never had a librarian with much experience in children's 
books.  I am in the process of reducing or eliminating paperbacks from
that 
area as I replace them with the titles that are missing from this 
collection.

Hope this helps.

Jim Belcher, Jr