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“You’ll never spend the whole budget, so you don’t really need to track it,” said my library coworker when I started purchasing the Adult Nonfiction section.
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Rachel Montgomery, MLS, Collection Development Librarian and Kim Collins, Collection Development Administrator
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Tricia Racke Bengel, MLS, Sales & Services Manager, Ingram Library Services
Between collection development and checking a book out, a lot happens. And, just like everything else, someone has to decide how those things happen in your library. Perhaps the decision was made over 20 years ago, and no one remembers why.
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