By Jennifer Trend, Staff Writer
The library is always bringing in new books into its growing selection, choosing ones that are new and popular to students.
But how does it know what students want to read next?
There’s the first choice of actually getting a book recommendation from students. Students can recommend, request or hold a book through the Fountain Valley High School’s Library website.
But for the rest of the books at the library, library assistant Sharon Watkins browses through websites such as Goodreads and Amazon to choose books that are new, in the top charts and are popular for the school.
In addition, Watkins chooses books by looking at what students check out the most. Depending on the genres of the books students tend to check out, the next set of books the library receives will most likely be catered to that genre.
The new books that get chosen are also helped picked by the other libraries in the area. Watkins says that bases her selections from popular books in the other libraries and takes that into consideration when selecting new books. She sees what books are circulating the most between libraries and which ones are always checked out and popular.
Furthermore, selecting books is based on statistics and how some books are being checked out more than others. Watkins looks though what books are checked out the most and chooses books that are similar or related to those titles.
By checking out books at the library, students are deciding which books are brought and placed into the library system.
