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the power of retail5 comments

myounker wrote 4 months ago: Target is apparently a big player in selling books.  consumers are paying attention to the guiding l … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction, Bestsellers, BookStores, Marketing, Authors

New Improved RINC Form2 comments

Jim McCluskey wrote 10 months ago: As we move forward in 2009, Collection Development Librarians decided it was time to review and revi … more →

Tags: RINC

the series are coming, the series are coming1 comment

myounker wrote 1 year ago: yesterday, our fabulous directed field work student, Cara, finished up a major series order, filling … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction

a few tweaks to SINC

myounker wrote 1 year ago: this week, we made a few adjustments to the Staff Item Not in Collection (SINC) form.  noticeably, w … more →

Collection Maintenance schedule on the staff intranet

nmessenger wrote 1 year ago: The Collection Development Librarians met last Friday for our annual planning meeting and we develop … more →

Tags: Collection Maintenance

not to be outdone by amazon...2 comments

myounker wrote 1 year ago: Publisher’s Weekly has announced their ‘Best Books‘ list for 2008.  as the year en … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction, New Titles, BEST OF, Bestsellers, Graphic Novels, Children's, Adult Nonfic, teen literature

the editors vs. the customers2 comments

myounker wrote 1 year ago: though it’s only November and seems a bit silly to start with the end-of-year lists, amazon go … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction, New Titles, BEST OF, Bestsellers, Graphic Novels, Children's, BookStores, Adult Nonfic, Oprah's Book Club

Got email?1 comment

Jim McCluskey wrote 1 year ago: Today,using the link in the upper right corner of our page you can subscribe to Collection Developme … more →

Tags: technology, Blogging, Feedburner, Email Subscription

Route It Right to Save TIME!!!

colldevsnoisle wrote 1 year ago: Routing Information SINC Originally uploaded by Sno-Isle Libraries Collection Development The Staff … more →

Tags: Customer Service, staff item not in collection form

Technical Services and CPI

colldevsnoisle wrote 1 year ago: Tech Svcs crew watching our videos, originally uploaded by kiltedlibrarian. This morning the Technic … more →

Tags: technology, Collection Development, Collection Maintenance, Training, weeding

in the works1 comment

myounker wrote 1 year ago: with the classics order (uncats and catalogued) done for the year, it’s time to tackle series … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction, Standing Orders, ischool, Classics

sneak peak

myounker wrote 1 year ago: from USA Today comes an interactive calendar of this year’s adult Fall releases (with a few yo … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction, New Titles, media, Bestsellers, Reviews, Adult Nonfic, Books, Publishing, 10 titles with buzz

first novels are a tricky thing

myounker wrote 1 year ago: this year is particularly abundant with the much-buzzed first novel.  in ordering forthcoming fictio … more →

Tags: Ouch!!!, Adult Fiction, New Titles, Bestsellers, Reviews, Collection Development, story of edgar sawtelle, first novels, guernsey literary and potato peel pie society

so many filters, so little time

myounker wrote 1 year ago: NPR.org Expands Book Coverage By Calvin Reid — Publishers Weekly, 6/30/2008 7:00:00 AM Nationa … more →

Tags: media, Reviews

get the word

myounker wrote 1 year ago: from today’s Shelf Awareness: Library News: Early Word Gives ‘Em What They Need Congratu … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction, New Titles, Bestsellers, Blogging, Adult Nonfic

the "individuality" of Kirkus3 comments

myounker wrote 1 year ago: in reading reviews for new adult fiction, i am often struck by the the contradictory tone of Kirkus … more →

Tags: Adult Fiction, Reviews

National Center for Educational Statistics

cathylantz wrote 1 year ago: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/ This site provides specific library statistics on collection s … more →

Tags: statistics

National Endowment for the Arts

cathylantz wrote 1 year ago: http://arts.endow.gov/ A good site to consider for funding options, this website includes informatio … more →

Tags: Funding

Mother of All Art Resource Pages

cathylantz wrote 1 year ago: http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/ This one stop site created by the University of Michigan Mus … more →


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