Gen: Libraries and bookstores

["Catharine D. Wolf" <hwolf@FRONTIERNET.NET>]

One idea I could adapt from the article "Why can't a library be more =
like a bookstore?" in the March issue of _American Libraries_ is the =
suggestion that shelving staff be entrusted with the pleasant duty of =
hand selling titles.  This is bookstore-ese for recommending things that =
a borrower might like to read (either for pleasure or for an =
assignment).  I have never forbidden a student to recommend a book, but =
it never occurred to me to tell them they have a *responsibility* to =
recommend books they think someone else would want to read/use.  Seems =
to me that could make the library a more user-friendly place and also a =
more interesting place for student volunteers.  The one thing I would =
*not* want them to say is,  "Oh, we have nothing about that."  I would =
want them to substitute, "Oh, you'll have to ask Mrs. Wolf about that."

Holly Wolf
Palmyra-Macedon High School librarian

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