Collection Development Bibliography:  A Sampling

Compiled by Carrie Turner, October 2004.

Books and Articles

American Library Association.  Guide to written collection policy statements. 2^nd ed. Chicago:  American Library Association, 1996. (available on netLibrary)

Baker, Carolyn.  “Special collections at Beatrice Public Library” in Nebraska Library Association Quarterly, Winter 2000, p. 57-63. www.nol.org/home/NLA/nlaquarterly/2000-4-Baker.html

Baker, Sharon L. & Karen L. Wallace.  The responsive public library:  how to develop and market a winning collection. Second edition.  Englewood, CO:  Libraries Unlimited, 2002.

Bromann, Jennifer.  “Too many journals, too little time” in School Library Journal, Sept., 2001.

Ciraulo, Vita.  “Suggestions for developing a Spanish language starter collection” in nsls.info weekly e-newsletter, June 6, 2003. http://www.nsls.info/about/nslsinfo/articles/reforma_column_603.html

Gillespie, John T. & Ralph J. Folcarelli.  Guides to collection development for children and young adults.  Englewood, CO:  Libraries Unlimited, 1998.

Herald, Diana Tixier.  Genreflecting:  a guide to reading interests in genre fiction.  Fifth edition.  Englewood, CO:  Libraries Unlimited, 2000.

Herald, Diana Tixier.  Teen genreflecting:  a guide to reading interests.  2^nd ed. Englewood, CO:  Libraries Unlimited, 2003.

Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association.  Intellectual Freedom Manual.  6^th ed. Chicago:  American Library Association, 2002.

Sullivan, Michael.  Connecting boys to books: what libraries can do.  Chicago:  American Library Association, 2003.

Sullivan, Michael.  “Giving Them What They Want in Small Public Libraries.” in Public Libraries, May/June 2000.

A Sampling of Online Resources

Author Sites – use www.google.com, www.yahoo.com or Novelist (POWER Library) to search on author’s name.

Awards & Bestsellers

Book awards list  www.literature-awards.com/bookawards.htm

Book Sense bestsellers (independent bookstores) www.bookweb.org/booksense/bestsellers/ 

Children’s book awards  http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/awards.html

National Book Awards  www.nationalbook.org/nba.html

New York Times bestsellers lists  www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/

Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers lists  www.publishersweekly.com

USA Today bestsellers lists  http://asp.usatoday.com/life/books/booksdatabase/default.aspx

Yahoo list   http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Awards/

Book Related Sites

• BookBrowser  www.barnesandnoble.com/bookbrowser/Welcome.asp?
• BookSpot  www.bookspot.com - portal for book-related content on the Internet
• Overbooked  www.overbooked.org/index.html - maintained by librarian
• Search google for read-alikes
• Which book? Tool  www.whichbook.net/index.jsp

Genre Sites

• Genreflecting website - www.genrefluent.com/
• Search Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) for genre links
• Graphic novels – see http://my.voyager.net/~sraiteri/comicslinks.htm for “Links to comics and graphic novel sites” by Steve Raiteri.

-http://www.noflyingnotights.com/ 

• Mystery – see www.droodreview.com, www.cluelass.com (see Mysterious Home Page), Mystery Reader  www.mysteryreader.com
• Romance – see All About Romance www.likesbooks.com , Escape to Romance  www.escapetoromance.com, Romance Writers of America   www.rwanational.org/ , Romantic Times Book Club  www.romantictimes.com

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

www.sff.net/people/dherald/resources2.htm,  www.sflovers.org/SFRG/ , www.scifan.com    

Jobber/Vendor Resources

• Amazon  www.amazon.com - lists, look inside, purchase circles, reviews
• Audible  www.audible.com

• Baker & Taylor  www.btol.com  - Title Source II, CD Hotlist
• Barnes & Noble  www.barnesandnoble.com

• Book Wholesalers Inc. (BWI)  www.bwibooks.com - owned by Follett, use for children and young adult selection, check out eNews and TitleTales.
• Book Sense  www.booksense.com - independent bookstores, see lists with annotations and book group suggestions
• Bookpage  www.bookpage.com
• Borders  www.bordersstores.com
• Christian Booksellers Association  www.cbaonline.org for bestseller lists
• Ingram Library Services  www.ingramlibrary.com - ipage
• Midwest Tapes  www.midwesttapes.com -
• Talking Book World  www.talkingbookworld.com/  - for audio rentals
• Titlewave  www.titlewave.com/ - Follett’s collection development product

Library Website Resources

• Baltimore County (MD) Public Library  www.bcplonline.org/centers/library/library.html - most requested titles, lists
• Johnson County (KS) Library www.jocolibrary.org/index.asp?DisplayPageID=431
• Kent District (MI) Library  www.kdl.org/books/index.asp - see Authors List and What’s Next database of sequels
• Morton Grove (IL) Public Library’s Reader’s Services www.webrary.org/RS/RSmenu.html - includes MatchBook and Fiction_L

Media Promotion

• Authors on the Highway  www.publishersweekly.com/highway
• Borders events    www.bordersstores.com/events
• Check individual publisher sites for author appearances
• Good Morning America’s books  http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/GMA/
• National Public Radio www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=32
• Oprah’s books  www.oprah.com/books/books_landing.jhtml
• Today show’s books  http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3041344/

Professional Resources/Reviews

• AcqWeb  http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/ - for acquisitions and collection development librarians
• AudioFile  www.audiofilemagazine.com
• Booklist  www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm
• Children’s Book Council  www.cbcbooks.org
• Collection Development Training for Arizona Public Libraries: Community Needs Assessment   www.dlapr.lib.az.us/cdt/
• Connecting Young Adults and Libraries www.connectingya.com/index2.html - Patrick Jones
• Guys Read  www.guysread.com
• Information Resources for Information Professionals  http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/index.html, University of Syracuse
• Internet Movie Database  www.imdb.com - top video rentals, lists, fan reviews
• International Reading Association  www.reading.org - booklists for children and teens chosen by readers and teachers
• Librarian’s Guide to Latino Services:  Collection Development  http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/seworkspace/hbooth/collection%20development.html - A project created for LIS 380, Information Organization and Access at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Librarians Index to the Internet  www.lii.org - search on “collection development”, “books”
• Library Journal  www.libraryjournal.com
• Novelist  available on the POWER Library – reviews, articles, read-alikes
• Reforma  www.reforma.org - national association to promote library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking
• School Library Journal  www.schoollibraryjournal.com
• Teen Librarian  www.teenlibrarian.com/
• Teen Read Week  www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenreading.htm
• Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)  www.voya.com
• Young Adult Books in Series and Sequels  www.rbls.lib.il.us/bpl-bin/series.pl - Bettendorf Public Library

Publishing Industry Resources

• American Book Association  www.bookweb.org
• Association of American Publishers  www.publishers.org
• Audio Publishers Association (APA)  www.audiopub.org 
• Bookwire  www.bookwire.com - Bowker
• Digital Entertainment Group  www.dvdinformation.com - DVD trade assoc.
• Publisher’s Weekly  www.publishersweekly.com

Research and Statistics/Trends

• Benton Foundation 1996 report - Buildings, Books, and Bytes  www.benton.org/publibrary/kellogg/buildings.html 
• National Endowment for the Arts (2004), Reading at Risk www.nea.gov/pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf  
• Book Industry Study Group BISG), www.bisg.org
• Library Research Service  www.lrs.org research, statistics, instruments