HIT: Wish-List how-to

[Sarah Lantz <sarahl@CCPL.CARR.LIB.MD.US>]

Since several people submitted similar ideas for keeping their yearly wish lists
I have summarized the ideas below:

Keep a running data base on your computer.  You can add any fields you want
and can easily prioritze the list.  At the touch of a key it ready to print should a
windfall come your way.  "It has proven to be handy to be able to tell the
principal 'I have 785 titles on the Consideration List' when she starts talking
about money problems."   (Of all the responses, this was the most common.)

Keep a couple of sheets of paper on your bulletin board with the columns:
books, av/software, equipment, other.  Each time you think of something jot it
down and later look up the prices.  Your list is then ready when your principal
wants to talk budget.

"I use Titlewave from Follett.  It is a CD-ROM format catalog.  It allows you
maintain running lists of book, software and A/V titles.  If the title you
are interested in appears in their catalog, the CD also show you a screen
including biblio data, a plot synopsis, sources where the work was reviewed,
etc.  It allows you to set purchase priorities and edit lists.  Also, you can
import and export the lists via a floppy which allows you to work on your
lists both at home and at school.  The program will also accept original
biblio entries if the book you want is not listed on the CD-ROM catalog."
(You can get the Titelwave CD free from Follett salesperson.)

Keep all those bits and pieces of paper with titles on them that you collect
throughout the year and send the whole lot to Follett to their typing service.
They do wonders with your mish mash!  Then go through their typed list and
make your final selections.  (Other vendors also offer free typing service.)

Xerox and highlight the titles you want from your professional journals every
month.  Keep a "fiction" folder, a "nonfiction" folder, an "AV" folder, and a
"misc." folder.  Add all those other bits and pieces of paper that you collect to
the folders.  At the end of the year you can easily review the contents of each
title and prioritze your list.

I hope this information is helpful to those of you looking for a new way to
keep your wish lists.  Thanks to all of you to replied to my plea for ideas!

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