Since I began as Faculty Development & Instruction Librarian here at GV, I've been wanting to have more fun library-related activities & resources for students. We're just getting started in the right direction by beginning a Young Adult Book Club and starting a leisure reading collection for students to utilize. The leisure collection will be displayed on top of the low shelves where our paperback collection is currently housed (on the main floor). Right now the paperback collection isn't cataloged and students can just take them & return them whenever. It is mostly comprised of donated fiction (lots of suspense & romance here, folks!), or discards that were brought down during a major weeding project several years ago. The leisure collection will be cataloged and checked out through our system, like the rest of our (non-paperback) collection. Many of the items I selected for purchase have film or TV adaptations that are already popular or that will be released this fall. Additionally, we are filling out series that were incomplete. For example, we only had the first of The Hunger Games trilogy in our Juv/YA collection. When the first movie came out, our copy was hardly on the shelf, and we had students asking for the rest of the series. The best we could do was direct them to a nearby library or offer to ILL the books for them, neither of which was an immediate solution. We also had gaps in our Harry Potter collection and hadn't even started collecting George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series--so I added those to our "to buy" list. Our collection isn't going to be perfect, but we're starting small and growing from there. Many of the leisure titles we are purchasing function as crossover works between YA fiction and just plain fiction, which will serve our newly-developed YA Book Club nicely! We are just getting started, but I'm hopeful we'll get a good core of book club members. I sent out an email announcement (below) and plan to include it in our library newsletter (geared toward students) as well as putting information on our library blog.
If so, then the GV YA (Young Adult) Book Club
is for you!
Stop by the library to check out the Meet the Book
Open House!
Grab a cookie, learn more about our first selection, The
Fault in Our Stars by John Green, and sign up for our email if you are
interested in attending our first group meeting.
Monday, Sept. 17, 4-7 p.m.
First floor of the GV Library
You don’t have to
stay the whole time! Come & go as your schedule allows!
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