[Publib] Book Club Books

[Reed, Liz]

We have DIBs...Discussion in a Box.  Titles are selected based on suggestions from librarians conducting the discussions.  Once the titles are selected, they are ordered in hard back, paper back, large print and audio (when all the formats are available...some have just hard back and paper back).  All copies are catalogued and barcoded and kept in a box together.  The Secretary in the General Manager's office maintains a file of the titles and they are booked as requested (I book mine a year at a time).  A few days before they are needed they are sent in delivery to the agency and they can be checked out by the book club members.  We check them out to be due the date of that title's discussion.  Each set has about 20 copies.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Liz Reed 
Manager, Richfield Branch 
Akron-Summit County Public Library 
3761 S. Grant St. 
P.O. Box 287 
Richfield, OH  44286 
330-643-4742 
ereed at akronlibrary.org 
www.akronlibrary.org 

 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Newman, Bobbi [mailto:newmanb at mrrl.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:41 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Book Club Books


Hi,
 
Some book club questions for the list
 
If your library has adult book clubs how do you provide the books? 
Does your library buy multiple copies or require participants to purchase them?  
If the library buys copies do you process them and check them out to patrons or do you loan them to book club members without processing?
 
I'd be very grateful for answers to these questions and any other information about your book clubs that you'd like to pass along!
 
Thank you
Bobbi
 

Bobbi L Newman 
Missouri River Regional Library 
Librarian, Technical Services 
573-634-6064 ext 253 

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