COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

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January2012-New.xls ·

Advantage Library Cart Naming Convention

To all Advantage Libraries:

When placing Advantage orders please use the following naming convention "Advantage Order - Library Name - (whatever other info you want to include)". For example this recent order by the Avon Public Library is the correct format "Advantage Order-Avon PL-8/16/2011".

This will make the lives of those managing the budgets and orders MUCH easier. Please let Tina (tina.doody@plfdpl.info) know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!

Collection Development Committee (CDC)

Tina Marie Doody, Chair, Plainfield Public Library

(In order of selection for 2012)

· January: Tina Marie Doody (Plainfield)

· February: Ellen Zander (Berkeley Heights)

· March: Laura Nawrocik (Mercer County)

· April: Louise Cangelosi (Woodbridge)

· May: Susan Pober (Millburn)

· June: Kathryn Brown (Woodbridge)

· July: C. L. Quillen (Old Bridge)

· August: Scherelene Schatz (State Library)

· September: Catherine LaBelle (West Orange)

· October: Maryann Ralph (Piscataway)

· November: Nancy Janow (South Orange)

· December: Ivonne Kratz (East Orange)

If you are interested in joining the Collection Development Committee, if I have forgotten to add you to the schedule, or if you need to switch your month please contact me at tina.doody@plfdpl.info.

April 2012

The new titles order for January has been submitted. As always please email any questions/suggestions to tina.doody@plfdpl.info. A big thank you to Louise Cangelosi from Woodbridge for being this month's selector!

April2012-New.xls

PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED ORDERS

Six months worth of lists will be kept on the wiki. If you would like to look at older lists please contact Tina at tina.doody@plfdpl.info and she will send you the appropriate file.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY
(revised 04/27/12)

The current monthly Collection Development budget is $10,300/mo. We will try to keep close to a 50/50 split on the number of titles purchased in audio & eBook formats.
The holds ratio is 10:1.
Maintain standard to own no more than 6 copies of an audiobook title. Titles with over 75 holds will be considered "High Demand". The absolute maximum number of copies per High Demand title is 8 for audio.
Maintain standard to own no more than 6 copies of an ebook title that costs $40 or less. Titles with over 75 holds will be considered "High Demand". The absolute maximum number of copies per High Demand title is 10 for ebooks.
Maintain standard to own no more than 5 copies of an ebook title that costs more than $40 regardless of the number of holds on the title.
A minimum of 35% of the monthly budget (currently $3500) will be spent on new titles.
In 2012 we will not renew our MaxAccess audio subscription. The money currently budgeted for MaxAccess titles will be used to purchase content over the course of the year.

Best Practices

for Library Partners to Maximize download circulation

(OverDrive, posted on 2/2/2010)

BestPracticesHandbook.pdf

Comments (2)

Unfortunately this page got wiped out when I tried to add the November order information. I have contacted Mi-Sun and hopefully she will be able to fix my mistake. SORRY EVERYONE!!!

Don't worry, Tina! We can always revert the page to previous versions.
For your information, when you paste new contents on a page, please make sure that the existing contents are not removed. Place your cursor at the end of the page you are editing and paste the contents that you want to add.
I will add a note on the front page on this matter.

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