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FROM: "Sue Schmidt" <[removed]@orrville.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/22/00, 12:52 PM

We are planning to offer a service whereby patrons tell us their
favorite authors, then get their name placed automatically on a reserve
list whenever new titles by these authors come out. Does anyone have
experience with this type of service? and what did you call it? Thanks.
Sue Schmidt

FROM: "Angela Hopkins" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/22/00, 1:16 PM

Hi...

Yes, we offer this service. We call it "Favorite
Authors Club." We have had it for about a year, and
it has gone over very well.

Hope this helps,

Angie
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FROM: "Tish Calhamer" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 1/22/00, 1:32 PM

We have a service called the F.A.N. Club--F.A.N. stands for Favorite
Authors Now. The holds are placed whenever we order from
McNaughton, with the exception of Oprah's monthly picks, which we order
from other sources besides McNaughton. We have 25 authors for patrons to
choose; they fill out a form checking off their favorite authors and then
whenever that author has an upcoming book and it becomes available
through McNaughton, we go ahead and order multiple copies to fill the
demand. For example, we would order at least 60 copies of any John
Grisham book because of the number of people who have signed up for his
books through the FAN Club! Over 150 patrons are participating in the FAN
Club, which we started in Nov. 1998. If you need any more info, e-mail me
outside the list!

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Tish Calhamer
Gail Borden Public Library
200 N. Grove
Elgin, IL 60120
PH#: 847-742-2411
e-mail: [removed]@nslsilus.org


On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Sue Schmidt wrote:

> We are planning to offer a service whereby patrons tell us their
> favorite authors, then get their name placed automatically on a reserve
> list whenever new titles by these authors come out. Does anyone have
> experience with this type of service? and what did you call it? Thanks.
> Sue Schmidt
>

FROM: "Marcia Bose" <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/22/00, 2:57 PM

Two and a half years ago the Roselle Public Library in Illinois started
this extremely successful service. They offer 100 authors and call it the
100 Best Sellers. The idea was taken from a county library in Missouri I
think. The authors on this list were available on B&T Automatically Yours
standing order service which was quite helpful in making sure the correct
number of copies were ordered. The patrons really liked it!
Marcia

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From: Sue Schmidt
Reply To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 2:20 PM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: automatic reserve list

We are planning to offer a service whereby patrons tell us their
favorite authors, then get their name placed automatically on a reserve
list whenever new titles by these authors come out. Does anyone have
experience with this type of service? and what did you call it? Thanks.
Sue Schmidt

FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcl.org>
REC'D: 1/24/00, 2:26 PM

Those of you doing this, could I ask a few questions?

Do you order one copy per reserve?

If not, how do you determine who is first on the list? I am trying
to envision this in our very large system where I think we could have
hundreds of requests. Even if we ordered plenty, I think we would not be
able to get one copy per request.

How do you maintain the list? Do you start to get people who have
moved, died, no longer interested, etc. clogging it up?

Does it often happen that people on the list don't actually come in
and pick up the book?

Thanks for your help and advice.

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:01:31 -0500
From: "Sue Schmidt" <[removed]@orrville.lib.oh.us>
Subject: automatic reserve list

We are planning to offer a service whereby patrons tell us their
favorite authors, then get their name placed automatically on a
reserve
list whenever new titles by these authors come out. Does anyone
have
experience with this type of service? and what did you call it?
Thanks.
Sue Schmidt

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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:21:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Angela Hopkins <[removed]@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: automatic reserve list

Hi...

Yes, we offer this service. We call it "Favorite
Authors Club." We have had it for about a year, and
it has gone over very well.

Hope this helps,

Angie
__________________________________________________
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:21:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Tish Calhamer <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
Subject: Re: automatic reserve list

We have a service called the F.A.N. Club--F.A.N. stands for Favorite

Authors Now. The holds are placed whenever we order from
McNaughton, with the exception of Oprah's monthly picks, which we
order
from other sources besides McNaughton. We have 25 authors for
patrons to
choose; they fill out a form checking off their favorite authors and
then
whenever that author has an upcoming book and it becomes available
through McNaughton, we go ahead and order multiple copies to fill
the
demand. For example, we would order at least 60 copies of any John
Grisham book because of the number of people who have signed up for
his
books through the FAN Club! Over 150 patrons are participating in
the FAN
Club, which we started in Nov. 1998. If you need any more info,
e-mail me
outside the list!


**************************************************************************
Tish Calhamer
Gail Borden Public Library
200 N. Grove
Elgin, IL 60120
PH#: 847-742-2411
e-mail: [removed]@nslsilus.org

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:01:40 -0600
From: Marcia Bose <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
Subject: RE: automatic reserve list

Two and a half years ago the Roselle Public Library in Illinois
started
this extremely successful service. They offer 100 authors and call
it the
100 Best Sellers. The idea was taken from a county library in
Missouri I
think. The authors on this list were available on B&T Automatically
Yours
standing order service which was quite helpful in making sure the
correct
number of copies were ordered. The patrons really liked it!
Marcia

FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@ccs.nsls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/24/00, 3:11 PM

At Dundee we call it the Favorite Fiction Fan Club and have 72 authors
listed. A suggestion: include the Oprah Book Club choices in your list.
It's working quite well for us. I have all the information in MS Access
database. Good luck,

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District

FROM: "Karen Dini" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/26/00, 10:53 AM

We've just started a list like this for patrons as of Jan 1. We call it the
utomatic Reserve List, and patrons can either go to our homepage and sign up
or we have a paper list/sheet that they can use when they come into the
library. We've created an Access database to facilitate this service, and
we decided to start with just 10 authors to see how it goes. It's been
going really well and patrons are very enthusiastic about this service. If
all continues to go well, we plan on expanding the list probably this
summer. You can see the sign up form on our web page at:
<A HREF="http://www.addison.lib.il.us">http://www.addison.lib.il.us</A> It's under Services, and then Reader's
Corner.

Karen Dini
Reader Services Coordinator
Addison Public Library
Addison, IL 60101
630/458-3347
e-mail: [removed]@addison.lib.il.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Schmidt [<A HREF="mailto:Sue.Schmidt@orrville.lib.oh.us">mailto:Sue.Schmidt@orrville.lib.oh.us</A>]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 1:02 PM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: automatic reserve list


We are planning to offer a service whereby patrons tell us their
favorite authors, then get their name placed automatically on a reserve
list whenever new titles by these authors come out. Does anyone have
experience with this type of service? and what did you call it? Thanks.
Sue Schmidt

FROM: "Jan Kilker" <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/14/00, 2:46 PM

This is in regard to the autoholds discussions that were posted a few
weeks ago: are
there any medium to large size library systems (circulation over 100,000
per year) that
are successfully providing this service? Does the time spent managing
this operation
get unwieldy? Any responses on or off list would be appreciated.

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