New Tastemakers

I'll start with something that Anderson said at the end of ch. 7 about pre and post filtering. Before I arrived at my library, they only ordered books that the former director liked and the NY Times bestsellers. We continue to buy from the bestsellers list because tons of people will line up for a book just because x x wrote it and it's on the NY Times bestsellers list. We also now take recommendations from our patrons. If enough people feel that a certain genre or book should be ordered, we seriously consider purchasing it. I also tend to buy a lot of books from NJ authors, in the
hope that it will somehow help- who knows if it does.

I'm not sure where we fall with being th new producers but we give the people what they want. If they want all of the bestsellers we make it happen (even though I will always try to sneak in a couple of books that I or others felt were good as well).

On a hippy side note- I liked the mention of Amazon producing books on a need-basis. I think we could save a lot of trees that way :-)