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Graphic novels now : building, managing, and marketing a dynamic collection / Francisca Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Francisca
Subjects
Libraries - Special collections - Comic books, strips, etc.; Graphic novels - United States.
Summary
"Graphic Novels Now helps librarians new to the genre with all the key issues related to these unique books. Expert author Francisca Goldsmith shares smart advice, from how to develop a well-rounded collection by finding reviews and reliable publishers and distributors to shelving, cataloging, and preserving these unique books. This guide features tips on marketing and promoting the graphic novel collection, as well as on how to create dynamic programs such as artist visits and how-to cartooning workshops. Going beyond the comic book, author and YA specialist Goldsmith answers her colleagues' many questions about one of her favorite kinds of literature."--BOOK JACKET.
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Graphic novels now : building, managing, and marketing a dynamic collection / Francisca Goldsmith.
Chicago : American Library Association,
113 pages
2005 English Book 6
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Title
  • Graphic novels now : building, managing, and marketing a dynamic collection /​ Francisca Goldsmith.
Author
  • Goldsmith, Francisca.
Published
  • Chicago : American Library Association, 2005.
Physical Description
  • vi, 113 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents
  • 1. Why graphic novels now?
  • 2. What is the right word for a book that looks like this?
  • 3. What is good?
  • 4. How can I deal with pigeons from hell?
  • 5. Can readers find your library's graphic novels?
  • 6. How does the collection find new readers?
  • 7. How can you put legs on your graphic novels?
  • 8. The politics of graphic novels.
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
  • English
ISBN
  • 0838909043 (alk. paper)
Dewey Number
  • 025.2/​77415973
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Libraries Australia ID
  • 27082299
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A complete and "user friendly" guide for librarians seeking to develop well-rounded and popular graphic novel collections
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One of the truly flourishing facets of the publishing industry, graphic novels have truly come into their own and are gaining wide-spread popularity you both juvenile and adult readerships. Graphic Novels Now: Building, Managing, And Marketing A Dynamic Collection by Francisca Goldsmith (Collection Management and Promotion Librarian for the Berkeley Public Library) is a complete and "user friendly" guide for librarians seeking to develop well-rounded and popular graphic novel collections through knowledgeable reviewers, as well as reliable graphic novel publishers and distributors. Very highly recommended as a resource guide, Graphic Novels Now directly addresses basic questions and issues such as what constitutes a graphic novel; how to create a graphic novel collection development policy; shelving, cataloging, and preserving the graphic novel, even how to create dynamic programs such as artist visits and cartooning workshops.

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