Feeling like your day is a never-ending quest to keep up with the latest book, music and movie releases? And who has the time? We do.


Sorting Through The Spin

Prepare your patrons for an informed decision with selections from our election list. Take a look at our handpicked titles on the candidates, the issues, our government, and the electoral process.

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Our Picks this Week

Week of October 6, 2008

This week’s featured titles, as selected by our Collection Development department.

Collection Development

It’s like having your own personal assistant — with an MLS degree

Working together, we’ll help you build a collection that will inspire you … and your patrons.

Our dedicated experts are always at your service

Your patrons should feel at home in your library and our experts will help make that a reality. We read the catalogs and reviews, research the awards and best book lists, and track the current series to make building your collection effortless.

Building your collection should start with a plan. Don’t worry; planning is easy with our Collection Development team by your side. Each of our Standing Order Plans has a specific focus, including titles from popular categories like bestselling authors, series, graphic novels and audiovisual plans.

Let our team of degreed professionals help you to:

Audiobooks on MP3-CD

No more CD juggling act, one book=one CD

Get an entire audiobook on a single CD—it’s that simple with MP3-CDs. With over 1,000 best-selling titles available, all easily uploaded to your iPod® or any other mp3 player.

Latest Blog Entry

This month, we sit down with Laura Amy Schlitz

Read our interview with 2008 Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz, author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, Bearskinner, and The Hero Schliemann.

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Laura Amy Schlitz is the media specialist and in-house storyteller extraordinaire at Baltimore’s Park School. Schlitz, who oversees the second through fifth-grade section of a library with 70,000 titles, initially wrote Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! 12 years ago as a series of monologues for the school’s fifth graders to perform. Since then, the story has become ingrained in the school’s curriculum.

A Drowned Maiden’s Hair

BWI: What was your reaction to the news that Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! had won the Newbery Medal?

LAS: I was thunderstruck, wonderstruck, and deliriously happy.

Browse our full collection of interviews with top authors and illustrators such as Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, John Green, Jon Scieszka, Jenny Downham, Mark Teague, and many more.

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