Adding New Books – How Do You Decide?
Posted by: Sara Rofofsky Marcus
As the new funding year looms, I start to wonder how others decide what to purchase. Do you depend on patron input (i.e., faculty or teachers), trends in the circulation (how do you gauge this), book reviews, or some other method? Generally, much time is spent reading reviews, but while these are great insights into the value of a book in theory, how does this measure up to the usefulness to the intended population?
