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Comic! For a political mini-rant
Mar. 22nd, 2011 09:09 am
<One Sense Two Cents Political Rant
From http://wbmaclean.com in re. his beta testing of his One Sense Two Cents comic. My rant, his drawing. :-)
Mar. 22nd, 2011
<One Sense Two Cents Political Rant
From http://wbmaclean.com in re. his beta testing of his One Sense Two Cents comic. My rant, his drawing. :-)
This is a guest post from Eseme
Intro
Aldersprig has invited me to do a guest post on libraries, and how the acquire books, because this is something that some self-published indie authors don't know much about. And they are curious. Great. Getting your book into a library is a super cool thing!
Why do I think this? I'm a librarian. I got my Library Science degree in May of 2007. I had worked in two libraries, one prior to starting the degree, and one while I was getting it (though that one was a university library which did not buy fiction). After getting the degree I job hunted for a while, the worked at a small rural public library (a town of 5,000) and I now work in what my state, Maine, would consider a medium-sized to large library (town of 20,000) but which most of the country considers a small library.
So I know a bit about how libraries buy books, how they add them to their collections (cataloging books and other items is among my job duties), author events at libraries (I have arranged more than one), and ebooks in libraries. I am also going to end with a few links I have found about bookstores and self-published books (I lurk on Publishers Weekly's website, and read a blog written by bookstore owners).
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Intro
Aldersprig has invited me to do a guest post on libraries, and how the acquire books, because this is something that some self-published indie authors don't know much about. And they are curious. Great. Getting your book into a library is a super cool thing!
Why do I think this? I'm a librarian. I got my Library Science degree in May of 2007. I had worked in two libraries, one prior to starting the degree, and one while I was getting it (though that one was a university library which did not buy fiction). After getting the degree I job hunted for a while, the worked at a small rural public library (a town of 5,000) and I now work in what my state, Maine, would consider a medium-sized to large library (town of 20,000) but which most of the country considers a small library.
So I know a bit about how libraries buy books, how they add them to their collections (cataloging books and other items is among my job duties), author events at libraries (I have arranged more than one), and ebooks in libraries. I am also going to end with a few links I have found about bookstores and self-published books (I lurk on Publishers Weekly's website, and read a blog written by bookstore owners).
( Read more... )
This is the second in a series of guest posts from eseme
Getting Your Self Published Book in a Library Part One
How Libraries Buy Books
In a perfect world, it would be super easy to get your book into a library. Then all sorts of people would read it, and some of them would want to read your other books, and go out and buy them. A lot of people find new authors by sampling books from their library. Even if a library patron does not have the budget to buy books, they are a reader and if they love your book, they will talk about it to all their friends.
So in a perfect world, this would all be easy. Our world is not perfect, and one of the first things anyone who wants to get their book into a library needs to know is that libraries are short on two things: time and money. Library budgets often get slashed just when people need them most (recessions) and it can take years for them to recover (flat-funding year-to-year is not uncommon even when we are not in a recession). Lack of money can also mean a small staff, where everyone wears lots of hats and does lots of different jobs. So they have very little time.
( Read more... )
Getting Your Self Published Book in a Library Part One
How Libraries Buy Books
In a perfect world, it would be super easy to get your book into a library. Then all sorts of people would read it, and some of them would want to read your other books, and go out and buy them. A lot of people find new authors by sampling books from their library. Even if a library patron does not have the budget to buy books, they are a reader and if they love your book, they will talk about it to all their friends.
So in a perfect world, this would all be easy. Our world is not perfect, and one of the first things anyone who wants to get their book into a library needs to know is that libraries are short on two things: time and money. Library budgets often get slashed just when people need them most (recessions) and it can take years for them to recover (flat-funding year-to-year is not uncommon even when we are not in a recession). Lack of money can also mean a small staff, where everyone wears lots of hats and does lots of different jobs. So they have very little time.
( Read more... )