From: Susan Raidy-Klein <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:33:04 -0500 This discussion lacks relevance since no one has bothered to obtain the facts from the library in question. Susan Raidy-Klein Collection Development & Acquisition Librarian University of Massachusetts Dartmouth N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:14:46 -0600 Yes, but if after close examination, only 2 of those 10,000 titles really have any merit, would you still say that it was a "good deal" for the library's patrons? Providing a lot of rubbish to patrons is hardly doing them a service. I'm not saying that all 10,000 titles are rubbish, but the fact is that the Douglas Library cannot assure its patrons that they are not. Did the librarians actually read all of those books themselves before ordering them? Sandy Thatcher