Collection Development Patterns of Fiction Titles in Public Libraries

Dilevko, Juris; Hayman, Alison R.

doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(99)00039-0

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“…17 In 2000, Juris Dilevko and Alison Hayman demon strated that both Library Journal and the New York Times Book Review consistently reviewed independently published fic tion titles "at a rate of between 30% and 40% of all fiction titles" reviewed by each publication in 1994-1997 (Library Journal, 35.3%; New York Times Book Review, 37.2%). 18 These two publications therefore reviewed corporately published books at a rate of 64.7 percent and 62.8 percent, re spectively, of all published books-a per centage that "quite closely parallels the market share of the seven corporate pub lishers (66.2% in 1997), according to fig ures supplied by Book Publishing Report." 19 Given the fact that the presence or absence of reviews of small press titles is positively related to the number of libraries owning such titles, 20 much energy has been de voted to making publications of all types more cognizant of small presses and thus more amenable to reviewing the books produced by them.…”

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Reviews of Independent Press Books in <i>Counterpoise</i> and Other Publications

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2004

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Although Counterpoise claims that it reviews books that are reviewed by other publications either infrequently or not at all, almost three-quarters of the books (74.7%) reviewed by Counterpoise are reviewed by a wide variety of other publications, including popular magazines and newspapers. Four core library review tools (Booklist, Choice, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly) review 48.2 percent of all book titles reviewed by Counterpoise, and their reviews are favorable 74.4 percent of the time. Of the books not reviewed anywhere else except Counterpoise, more than half fall into six Library of Congress classification categories, including E (History: America), HQ (The family. Marriage. Women), HV (Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology), and HD (Industries. Land use. Labor). In addition, there is a subset of titles that are frequently and positively reviewed by popular and academic publications, but not by reviewing journals commonly used by librarians.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%