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From: DEBORAH CHURCHMAN <CHURCHMAN>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:42:13 -0400
Thanks, Kathleen. Actually, that explains a number of books in the system.
Debby
10:25am >>> Debby,
While I am not familiar with your specific public library system, this is exactly the sort of scenario we might see in the public library system where I used to work. Since "Smack" is a brand-new book, my guess is that your library's youth services division hasn't had a chance to buy and/or process the book yet, and get it out on the shelves, as your adult services division has.
Typically in large public libraries, books for adults and books for youth are purchased by two completely separate departments. And typically, the youth services department has a much smaller book-buying budget, so they must be very selective about what they buy; therefore their evaluation and selection procedure can take much longer, as they are waiting for reviews to come in and perhaps even reading review copies of the books for in-house reviews.
So check in again in a month or two and I bet you'll find multiple copies in your library system's young adult collection. (I know this doesn't help you now!) And it never hurts to ask a youth services librarian if he or she knows when the book might be available. They can usually tell you.
Kathleen T. Horning, CCBC
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I tried to find this book in my library system last night. I live in an older suburb right outside of Washington, D.C., which has a large, well-supported library system with excellent children's and YA librarians, many of whom have served on the Newbery and the Caldecott committees. The entire system has a total of one copy of the book, which is filed with the adult fiction. (It was out, of course.) I have no idea why the YA people chose not to buy the book or why it was filed in this way, but am very curious as to how other libraries are classifying it.
Debby
Received on Wed 10 Jun 1998 09:42:13 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:42:13 -0400
Thanks, Kathleen. Actually, that explains a number of books in the system.
Debby
10:25am >>> Debby,
While I am not familiar with your specific public library system, this is exactly the sort of scenario we might see in the public library system where I used to work. Since "Smack" is a brand-new book, my guess is that your library's youth services division hasn't had a chance to buy and/or process the book yet, and get it out on the shelves, as your adult services division has.
Typically in large public libraries, books for adults and books for youth are purchased by two completely separate departments. And typically, the youth services department has a much smaller book-buying budget, so they must be very selective about what they buy; therefore their evaluation and selection procedure can take much longer, as they are waiting for reviews to come in and perhaps even reading review copies of the books for in-house reviews.
So check in again in a month or two and I bet you'll find multiple copies in your library system's young adult collection. (I know this doesn't help you now!) And it never hurts to ask a youth services librarian if he or she knows when the book might be available. They can usually tell you.
Kathleen T. Horning, CCBC
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I tried to find this book in my library system last night. I live in an older suburb right outside of Washington, D.C., which has a large, well-supported library system with excellent children's and YA librarians, many of whom have served on the Newbery and the Caldecott committees. The entire system has a total of one copy of the book, which is filed with the adult fiction. (It was out, of course.) I have no idea why the YA people chose not to buy the book or why it was filed in this way, but am very curious as to how other libraries are classifying it.
Debby
Received on Wed 10 Jun 1998 09:42:13 AM CDT
