My budget for teen books this year includes a grant that has enabled me to spend almost double what has been spent on teen books in the past. A blessing and a curse, my friends! I didn’t really realize quite how much money I had, so I’ve been on a shopping spree the last few [...]
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Budget surplus…it’s stranger than fiction!
Posted in Collection Development on April 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »
My Own “Call of Duty”
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been working furiously over the last couple of weeks to expand my library’s circulating video game collection…looking at lists of what other libraries are circulating, pouring over issues of Game Informer and the lists on the web site What They Play…finally, I had a list. A very long list. Although I’m the teen services [...]
Collection Access Granted!
Posted in Collection Development, Weeding on October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since I arrived at my library nearly 6 months ago, I have been engaged in the struggle to weed, update, shift, and organize my collection, which includes hardcover, paperback, manga, and magazines. My supervisor, who had been maintaining the collection before I was hired had to cycle the YA stuff in to her youth department [...]
