Bestsellers and Collection Development for Libraries
Mei-Ling Wang
Graduate Institute of Library, Information and Archival
Studies
National Chengchi University
E-mail: meilingw@nccu.edu.tw
Graduate Institute of Library, Information and Archival
Studies
National Chengchi University
in buying books. Whether bestseller books reflect contemporary public reading preferences? Are bestseller lists referenced by selection librarians? This article mainly discusses the relationship between the bestseller books and library collections development, including the bestseller lists and library book selection, bestseller book and collection development policy.
Keywords : Bestsellers, Selection, Collection Development
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Bestsellers
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New York Times 86
1,500
2006
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Harrid's Librarians’
Glossary Feather &
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longseller Frank Mott 1947
2014
2006
1995
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Time Warner Harper Collins 75%
2006
2014
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Bookman The Best Selling New
Book
Bestsellers
1912 Publishers Weekly
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2003
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1984 73
30
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Sellers
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40
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Nonfiction Fiction
Nonfiction Trade
Fiction Mass Market Fiction
GRAPHIC BOOKS Hardcover Paperback Manga 22
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Bestsellers
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American Booksellers Association INDIEBOUND
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cost Melvil Dewey 1876
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