Core Collections

Your bookshelves need attention from beginning to end.

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Good service to readers begins with a robust, well-rounded collection of books. Core Collections gives you everything you need in one place to make informed and confident collection decisions.  

This award-winning tool makes it easy to build and maintain collections that are responsive to your community’s needs and wants.  

See how libraries like yours are curating a collection that creates a lasting connection with readers.  

Orem Public Library

Just 45 miles south of Salt Lake City, UT, the Orem Public Library serves a densely populated suburban area of 98,000 residents with a single library branch. Julie Heckert, Digital Services Librarian, explains the tough challenge of building a collection that suits the needs of your individual community of readers and how Core Collections helps build and maintain a vibrant library collection. 

Read the full Core Collections and Orem Public Library success story

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Core Collections helps you assess the breadth of the collection and ensure you haven't missed any holes. It's really, really been helpful.

— Julie Heckert, Digital Services Librarian for Orem Public Library (Utah)

Fairfax County Public Library

Dianne Coan is the Division Director of Technical Operations at Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL), a 23-branch library system that serves 1.2 million (and growing) residents in Fairfax, VA. She shares how the library system is building a strong, responsive collection with Core Collections.

Read the full Core Collections and Fairfax County Public Library success story

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We use Core Collections on a daily basis for our collection work from selection to weeding to help us balance demand and collection depth against budget constraints. Alerts help staff to get the information they need for their selection needs and recommendation levels make it easy for us to judge which titles should get extra copies if we have money at the end of the year.

— Dianne Coan, Division Director of Technical Operations, Fairfax County Library (Virginia)

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Recommended to librarians and libraries at all levels. Easy to use, economical and time-saving for librarians and paraprofessionals working on collection development.”

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“We use Core Collections on a daily basis for our collection work from selection to weeding to help us balance demand and collection depth against budget constraints. Alerts help staff to get the information they need for their selection needs and recommendation levels make it easy for us to judge which titles should get extra copies if we have money at the end of the year.”

Dianne Coan, Fairfax County

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