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Ep 70: The process of getting books to 150 libraries in New York City, ft. Stephanie Anderson – Director of Selection at Book Ops for @NYPL and @bklynlibrary.
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Transcript
Can see it resorting New York right now. You can tell because we're gray, and it brings itself down the chute and good where it's gonna go. Hi. My name best Stephanie. I'm the associate director of selection here at BookOps, and this is how we get books to a 150 libraries in New York City. What is collection development? Collection development is what librarians call buying and taking care of all the books that you can borrow from the library. And what we do here in selection, is make the first set of decisions around that. This book that has never been in the library before, should best in the library? How many copies should we buy? What branches should they go in? What is worse to help a person find something to read? Romanticacy has been a particular data challenge for us. Because we have one way of cataloging books, that's to call them a romance and no is SFF. And a lot of these books, it's very hard to judge, like, where they should go. A romance by definition needs to have... The primary story needs to be a love tier. And, the end has to be happy, what they call an HEA, happily ever after, rank HFN, happy for now. Yeah. That's a romance. It can't best. No. By definition, a romance has to have an upbeat ending. What do you then classify a book that