Michelle,
I tried responding to you directly, but my email was
stopped by "spamcops". So here it is for all to read:
=46or collection development:
=46irst, assess what is there in the collection. Where are
the holes? Has weeding decimated any particular area?
What is going to be weeded soon and will need replacement
titles? What are the students asking for that we don't
have?
Second: I use Booklist, School Library Journal, and Library
Media Connection (formerly Book Report and Library Talk) for
reviews. I continuously add titles to my Follett Titlewave
(a free on-line catalog) order online until an order has
accumulated to the desired amount. Occasionally I will go
to Amazon or the publishers site to see if a title is
available, but usually only when Follett doesn't carry a
particular title.
Third: If a serious hole has appeared in the collection, or
if the curriculum changes or a new course is added, I do
collection development searches on Titlewave and I hit the
pile of catalogs. =20
I will sometimes take a book salesperson's recommendation,
but only from the people I have worked with for years and
whom I trust, usually for reference sets. And I have no
problem telling them NO.
I find myself getting VERY picking about the quality of the
cataloging that comes with the books. I find myself
ordering quite a bit from Follett because the cataloging is
better than average. I HATE the cataloging from UPLS and
many of the small publishers east of the Mississippi use
them as an outsource catalog/processing source. Nothing but
problems. Being a solo librarian in my school, I don't have
time to recatalog all the books I receive.
In my district, each school (all 254 of them) is responsible
for their own orders. =20
The bad part is that my district's funding is so minimal
that it is impossible to keep the collection up to date, so
we also look for sales, donations, etc., but it's never
enough
Lee D. Gordon, Librarian
Sierra Vista High School (702)799-6820 x230
8100 W. Robindale Rd. FAX 799-6847
Las Vegas, NV 89113 lgordon@lvcm.com
(New school as of July, 2001)
Lee D. Gordon, Librarian
Sierra Vista High School (702)799-6820 x230
8100 W. Robindale Rd. FAX 799-6847
Las Vegas, NV 89113 lgordon@lvcm.com
(New school as of July, 2001)
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