Book Report: What Public Libraries Buy and How Much They Spend.

Hoffert, Barbara

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Publication Date: 1998

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Book Report: What Public Libraries Buy and How Much They Spend.

Hoffert, Barbara

Library Journal, v123 n3 p106-10 Feb 15 1998

A Library Journal survey of 2000 public libraries investigated adult book expenditures and circulation. This article presents statistics on purchasing power and circulation, sources used for purchasing decisions, where books are purchased, top circulating genres, topics of increased patron and librarian interest, topics being weeded and replaced, and top circulating adult fiction and nonfiction titles. (PEN)

Descriptors: Adults, Books, Fiction, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development, Library Expenditures, Library Statistics, Library Surveys, Literary Genres, Nonfiction, Public Libraries, Purchasing, User Needs (Information), Weeding (Library)

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Language: English

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