Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle

November 29, 2007

The Travel Series Standing Order has been updated for 2008 and you can see the list on the Intranet. There are links in the Collection area for you to follow. The changes for 2008 are primarily for the number of copies and series included.

The number of copies purchased was adjusted based upon circulation, research on popular travel destinations for 2008 and items sent in for weeding. Most titles sent in for weeding are reallocated. Copies of the series featuring the Northwest were increased.

No series were dropped from the standing order but several were added. For the local area series for Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and Victoria were added. Several titles from the Michelin Red Guide and Fodor’s In Focus series were added as well as some new titles from Rick Steves. In general, irregular publications are not on the standing order but exceptions were made to ensure that a location or series is not missed. An example is “The Milepost” which is a travel planner for areas of Canada and Alaska.

Two areas of interest were not added to the standing order. Budget travel series are essentially being discontinued. Books for the countries in Asia are few and far between because of the irregular publication schedule.

New Professional Titles

November 29, 2007

Here are some of the new titles added to the Professional Collection:

• 101+ Great ideas for teen library web sites

by Miranda Doyle

• Analyzing library collection use with excel

by Tony Greiner

• Children’s jukebox by Rob Reid (2^nd ed.)

• Gamers in the library

by Eli Neiburger

• Human resources for results

by Jeanne Goodrich

• Intellectual property

by Timothy Wherry

• Library 2.0 and beyond

by Nancy Courtney

• Managing facilities for results

by Cheryl Bryan

• Managing your library construction project

by Richard McCarthy

• Manga: the complete guide

by Jason Thompson

• Newbery and Caldecott awards (2007 ed.)

• Passion for print

by Kristine Mahood

• Preschool favorites (storytimes)

by Diane Briggs

• Readers advisory guide to nonfiction

by Neal Wyatt

• Reading rants

by Jennifer Hubert

• Serving teens through reader’s advisory

by Heather Booth

• Sex, brains and video games (teens)

by Jennifer Burek Pierce

• Something musical happened at the library

by Rob Reid

• Storytimes for two-year-olds

by Judy Nichols

All of the titles are available for placing holds.

Becky Buckingham

Collection Development Librarian

Our recent Collection Summit got me thinking about alternative avenues of communication for not only ourselves but our customers in the branches. So I have created a IM identities (jpmccluskey200 in AIM and Yahoo, and probably very soon Google Talk. I have added my ID as part of my signature in Outlook. I use Meebo to manage the various accounts, which is very simple and since its web based it accessible anywhere which is improvement over Trillian the system I used to use. Trillian requires installing software which limits accessibility when you don’t have it on a PC, say like in the training room. And since it was being kind of quirky with my Yahoo account it seems like a good time to move on to Meebo.

My thoughts about using IM are that it will allow us to check quickly to see if any of have time to talk about an issue, so we don’t have to get up to see that someone’s in a closed door meeting. And also its just another way to get a quick answer to a question. Libraries have been using Meebo for awhile now and Librarian in Black has a good post that gives some useful background information. All this is to say, Hey try something new and IM me. Jim

Unshelved has announced their winners for “Pimp my Bookcart.”

apparently, the publishing industry along with Hollywood is suffering because “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” are in re-runs.

a favorite blog, lifehacker, just promoted the site ‘What Do I Read Next.’

from today’s “shelf awareness”:

That’ll teach him.

Well, maybe not.

Only 1,729 purchasers of A Million Little Pieces by James Frey have sought a refund under terms of a class-action lawsuit, according to the AP. A judge has approved a deal for reimbursing readers who bought the book before it was revealed that A Million Little Pieces, sold as a memoir, had stretched the truth.

Random House had set aside $2.35 million to settle the case. The purchasers of the book who have made claims receive a total of $27,348. On the other hand, lawyers will take $738,000 in fees. Random is paying $432,000 in advertising and settlement costs, and $180,000 goes to the American Red Cross, the Hazelden addiction treatment center and First Book.

A lawyer involved in the suit told the AP that such class-action suits usually draw 20% of those eligible; in this case, the amount was 7.2%.