Brain Snack: Selection Tips & Tricks for Adult Collections December 12, 2008 Jean Anderson, SCLS

Typical Selection Tools  Booklist  Library Journal  Publishers Weekly  Bookmarks

Newspapers & Magazines  Your local paper  People, NYT, Wall Street Journal  Oprah, Better Homes & Gardens  And many more!

Databases  NoveList An excellent RA tool Has Book Club information Review source, too  EBSCO and ProQuest Create an alert for book reviews or journals l.php?faq= l.php?faq= std/en/lcd/alerts/alerts.htm

Blogs and Web sites  LibraryThing LibraryThing  Amazon Amazon  Publisher’s sites  Genre web sites – just a sample The Mystery Reader The Romance Reader The SF Site Western Authors

Bibliographies  Make Mine a Mystery  Read on… Fantasy Fiction many others in this series  Book Lust and More Book Lust  Fiction Catalog  Public Library Catalog  All available from SCLS Professional Collection

“Best” and Best Seller Lists  RUSA Notable Books List RUSA Notable Books List  RUSA: The Reading List RUSA: The Reading List  Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly  Amazon Top Sellers  Many other year end lists from various sources  Don’t Miss Lists (on LINKcat)

And More!  Prize winners Pulitzer, Booker, National Book Award  Customer or Patron requests Do you have a way for your patrons to request books?  Book clubs and reading guides Reading Group Guides Reading Group Choices Oprah Your local book clubs – what are they reading?

Keeping up  Baker & Taylor Automatically Yours (for Fiction) Automatically Yours Continuation Services (for Nonfiction) Continuation Services  Standing Orders  Catalogs – only keep those you really use and toss the rest

Blogs  Madison Public Library blogs & more MADreads BookLetters oklists/index.html oklists/index.html  EarlyWord – the Publisher/Librarian Connection EarlyWord  The Tech Static The Tech Static

And more blogs  Bookreporter.com Bookreporter.com The blog from ReadingGroupGuides.com  Book club girl Book club girl  Reader’s Advisor Online Reader’s Advisor Online  Any others to add to the list?

Tips  Read, read, read  Talk, talk, talk  Read out of your comfort zone  Subscribe to some blogs It will save you time in the long run Coming in January – program on using a blog reader and subscribing to them

What tips & tricks to you have?  How do you keep up?  What sources to you regularly use?  Do you have standing orders or an automatic shipping plan?  Simplify your ordering process Track an order from start to finish and see how the process can be simplified or changed

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