[Publib] Re: Collection Development of classic literature

[Andy Barnett]

>We started with the high school reading list, so that what we added 
>(or updated) was almost guarranteed to get used a couple of times a 
>year. After all, the collection exists to serve your community.

>  If you are going to get teens looking for Scarlet Letter, better 
> have a couple copies. If they aren't going to read Proust, then 
> that can come later. So - no suprises, just Twain, Poe,  Austin, 
> Dickens, Bronte, any semi-classic made into a recent movie.


Andy Barnett, Asst. Director            McMillan Memorial Library
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