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We have seen many examples of book bundles for youth. In this recent Teen Librarian Toolbox blog post, Karen Jensen really breaks down the process in an experiment she tried to increase circulation. Her goal was to "resurrect" older titles that were no longer as popular as they once were and were in storage.
She writes: "By day, I work at the Fort Worth Public Library system in the Collection Development department (important note: this is my private and personal blog, they just let me talk about the cool stuff we do there sometimes). FWPL is a 17 branch system and like all large systems, we have branches of varying sizes. This means that for some of the smaller branches as we get new books in, older titles with less circulation are moved into a type of storage at our largest branch. Patrons can place holds on the titles and still get them sent out, but most of the titles end up “dead” in a few years, which is the nature of the beast. However, I wanted to do an experiment and see if I could utilize the concept of book bundles to increase our overall teen fiction circulation. And using these so called “dead” titles (really, storage titles), was the best starting place for my experiment."
This post is a fascinating read and you can find it here. [Creating Teen Book Bundles to Increase Circulation, an Experiment. Jensen, Karen. Teen Librarian Toolbox blog. School Library Journal. August 24, 2022.]
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