Brain Snack: Selection Tips & Tricks for Adult Collections

December 12, 2008

Jean Anderson, SCLS

Typical Selection Tools

Booklist Library Journal Publishers Weekly

http://www.scls.info/ce/index.html Bookmarks

http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/

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 http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.

php?faq=1286 http://proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/lcd/alerts/

alerts.htm

Blogs and Web sites

LibraryThing 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: The Reading List 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) Continuation Services (for Nonfiction)

Standing Orders Catalogs – only keep those you really

use and toss the rest

Blogs

Madison Public Library blogs & more MADreads BookLetters http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/boo

klists/index.html EarlyWord – the Publisher/Librarian

Connection The Tech Static

And more blogs

Bookreporter.com The blog from ReadingGroupGuides.com

Book club girl 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

Thanks!

Contact me with any questions!jfanders@scls.lib.wi.us608-246-5613