I'm glad you found Steemit and have been posting here. As a librarian, how you all decide what gardening books to get for your library?
I'm glad you found Steemit and have been posting here. As a librarian, how you all decide what gardening books to get for your library?
Hi there HH! I direct messaged you a very big thank you for the Steem that you sent me in Steemit Chat! You are awesome!
Regarding the gardening books, our library is a part of a network of seven libraries with our mother ship located in the largest of our district libraries. There, we have a collections manager whose sole responsibility is to manage the collection, order, catalog, and process the books. With that said, it appears as if we get about everything that is published and released pertaining to gardening. Our cataloging guru is also really awesome about ordering patron book requests, so there is a really diverse selection on everything from perennial selection to permaculture.
We also have a pretty amazing courier system and have access to the catalogs of about 20 libraries in an extended network with multiple weekly deliveries. So you can peruse the catalog from your device at home, order the items that interest you, and drop by and pick them up when convenient. It's an excellent system!
So folks in your area don't have to go buying every new gardening book they see! Imagine that! The power of libraries, lol.
I DM'd you back -- thanks for being generous in supporting the Steemit gardening community beyond thekeyboard. Seed sharing is a great gardening tradition!
I got your DM, and thank you again!
lol! When it comes to books, especially gardening books, I am a really terrible person, for I rarely, if ever, purchase a book without first checking it out and reviewing it from the library. It's almost as if I work there or something! 😉
haha. Enjoy your public library - and your work! ; )