Special Selection Criteria

Owned by Michelle Bickert (Unlicensed)
May 17, 2018
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Special Selection Criteria

    1. Public domain/classics
      1. Widely held and/or widely circulated in libraries (public, digital, academic, school)
      2. Commonly assigned in curriculum (e.g. top title in Open Syllabus, AP language bibliography)
      3. Inclusion in lists, subject guides
    2. Textbooks
      1. Reputation/authoritativeness of publisher
      2. Peer-reviewed
      3. Does not require other materials to go with it (i.e. a companion guide or database that a library user could not reasonably access)
      4. EPUB format
      5. Commonly assigned subjects that may also interest a public library audience
      6. A completed monograph (as opposed to a thesis or dissertation)
    3. Contemporary fiction and nonfiction
      1. Non-fiction is peer reviewed
      2. Subject is timely and relevant
      3. Appears in respected best-seller and/or awards lists
      4. Books with mature subject matter will be held to the same standards in the selection criteria (e.g. quality of content, reputation of author/publisher) and tagged as  “Adult Only”
    4. Children’s books
      1. Trusted publisher/content creator
      2. Timely and appealing to young audience
      3. Appears in respected best-seller and/or awards lists (English-language)
    5. Non-English languages
      1. Non-English titles will be added based on:
        1. Reputation/authoritativeness of content provider
        2. Reputation/authoritativeness of publisher
        3. Reputation/authoritativeness of author