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I was busy this month with end of summer/fall planning/renovations, but I also dealt with a lot of collection/ordering issues. I'm doing major weeding/relabeling projects and also dealing with continued issues with our main vendor, Baker & Taylor. Like many folks, we are struggling with unfilled orders. One of the main things I depend on B&T for is prebind copies and in the past I've really appreciated the option to request paperbacks be prebound. However, the shipping issues are interfering with things - some items I ordered last January were still unavailable. On top of that, we just found out that our rep is no longer with the company and our entire state is now, apparently, without a customer service rep.
This does not bode well.
While I'd prefer not to order from Amazon, if they have the materials available and it's the same or less in cost, I'll do what I have to do to get the books for my patrons and use our funds wisely. I cancelled an extensive number of orders and I will reorder prebinds in January, when, hopefully, things will be improved.
[Instant update - looks like B&T has been sold to ReaderLink. We'll see what happens. This is not a good time to investigate or change vendors, but if necessary we'll revisit this next year.]
However, issues aside, there are still books!
Library Pinterest - new materials
Unless otherwise noted, all items were purchased for or added to the library collection
Board Books
- Baby Pterosaur by Julie Abery
- Digging for dinosaurs at the beach by June Smalls
- Itsy Bitsy Spider by Jane Cabrera
- Who's making all that noise? by Darrin Lunde
- Snow Kid by Jessie Sima
- Recess by Lane Smith
- We want leaves! A fall chant by Jamie Swenson
- Fairy Fashion Show by Bea Jackson
- Smoosh's super-duper fun day by Michael Slack
- Avery and the fairy circle by Rowan Kingsbury
- Muk 'n' Honey: Treehouse trouble by Brett Bean
- Love Puppies by JaNay Brown-Wood
- Llama Quest by Megan Reyes
- Amina Banana by Shifa Safadi
- Game Quest by Ash Wu
- Featuring... Simone Biles by Erin Falligant
- Flat Stanley: graphic novel
Juvenile Nonfiction
- Cupcake class by Joy Howard
- Survival in space : the Apollo 13 mission by David Long
- Space Case the graphic novel by Stuart Gibbs
- Emma & Capucine by Jérôme Hamon
Manga (new series)
- Cat + Crazy
- Soara and the house of monsters
- Victoria of many faces (light novel) Yaiba : Samurai Legend
- Money for adulting : fun tips and financial tricks for teens by Michelle Hung
- The assassin's guide to babysitting by Natalie Parker
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