Re: Selection Guidelines

["Irwin - Maureen S." <msirwin@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

I think a major problem with the cheap paperbacks is that they are hard to
see on the shelf.  They are too little, get lost behind or inside other
books, the spines are so narrow the call # label can't be seen, and the
title is too little to read.  Hence, they don't get used.  And they are a
nightmare to inventory!  Perhaps, as some have suggested, they could be
stored in little bins with like creatures (maybe all the mammal books
together)and then they'd at least get looked at.  But when my collection
policy
gets revised, it will probably specifially exclude books of this type.  I
may even donate a lot of the ones that we have to the classrooms or the
children's hospital.

Maureen S. Irwin
Director of the Library
Rye Country Day School
Rye, N.Y.

msirwin@umd5.umd.edu    **Any book you have not read is a new book ;-)**

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