Happy New Year!

Dec. 31st news

Today I am ordering materials on how to play the piano, drums and guitar. You'll be seeing some Hal Leonard products in the catalog pretty soon and available at the branches as soon as the back orders are filled by the publishers with Baker & Taylor..

Some of the titles are:
Fretboard Roadmaps

Twilight- The Score

Total Rock Guitar

Glee

by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (COR)

Twilight: New Moon

by Desplat, Alexandre (COP)

Picture Chord Encyclopedia

The Enormous Guitar Songbook

The Fame

by Lady GaGa (CRT)

These are listed as adult titles in Baker & Taylor but I think teens will be able to use these and kids possibly too. They will be cataloged as Teen Nonfiction.

More December News

This week I've ordered some Grammy nominated CDs for kids including:

Play by Milkshake
American Heroes by Jonathan Sprout
Kids in Motion by Greg & Steve
Banjo to Beatbox by Cathy Fink
Great Day by Milkshake

And I have also ordered some of the Grammy nominees for Teens;

The Renaissance by Q-Tip
Divided by Night by Crystal Method
Party Rock by LMFAO
The New Danger by Mos Def
Let's Get It by Young Jeezy

We'll see who the winners are pretty soon, enjoy.
Ann

December news

Gosh it's been a while since I posted here. I have been really busy ordering lots of Picture books, readers, board books, Fiction & Non-Fiction, DVDs, kits, music

and for

Teens; fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks, DVDs, music.

I hope you are seeing lots of new materials arriving...

I am already seeing Easter titles in my carts from Baker & Taylor so those should be arriving before Easter.

This week I ordered more Express copies of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series because of their continuing popularity. Also on Kinney's web site I see news that a movie is coming out .

http://www.wimpykid.com/ to view photos from the production set.

New Children's DVDs I have ordered include:

Gotta Catch Santa Claus

Fraggle Rock

Agent Cody Banks

Spongebob Squarepants: Nautical Nonsense

G-Force

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

New Teen DVDs I've ordered include:

King Arthur (Keira Knightley)

Friday Night Lights

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The Replacements

Everybody Hates Chris (4th season)

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (patron request)

New Teen CDs ordered include:

She Wolf by Shakira

Raditude by Weezer

The Fame Monster by Lady GaGa

Chickenfoot

Gold and Green by Sugarland

Enjoy!

Ann

OCTOBER 28

It's not even Halloween yet but I'm ordering Holiday DVDs.

Today I sent a cart that includes:

• Mickey's Magical Christmas:Snowed in at the House of Mouse
• Dora the Explorer: Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure
• I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown
• Santa Buddies: Buddies

Other non-Holiday DVDs include:

• Peanuts 1970s Collection vol.1
• Speed Racer : The Complete Classic Series Collection
• Transformers
• Superman: 13 heroic Episodes
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

These should show up in the catalog soon!

DVD orders - October

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been re-released on DVD! And I sent in an order for 100 copies of it today. I'm not sure how long it's been since Disney has had this available but it's been a while so I was excited to be able to order it for our patrons.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

I sent in an order for 100 copies of this DVD last week and the holds are building already. The official release date for this film is Dec. 8, 2009 so watch for it to arrive shortly after that date.

I've also ordered:

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Santa Buddies (cute dog story)

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Ann

October news

October News

I've been doing a lot of ordering in the past few months. You can probably tell by everything that's been coming in to your branch.

Teen DVDs coming soon include:

Supernatural: the Complete Fourth Season (from a teen suggestion)

Charmed: Seasons 4 - 6 (also a teen suggestion)

Mick Foley: Greatest Hits & Misses, the Hardcore edition.

Sunday Driver (Lowriding)

Dance Flick ( a parody)

Gifted Hands (Ben Carson story)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Wuthering Heights ( we owned on videotape only)

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

New Teen Music CDs coming soon:

I looked at the track listings on the soundtrack to "New Moon' and ordered CDs of the bands that played in the movie. I figured they would be popular with Twilight fans!

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear

Baby Darling Doll Face Honey by Band of Skulls

Actor by St. Vincent

Youth Novels by Lykke Li

Sam's Town by The Killers

Blod Bank by Bon Iver

The Eraser Rmxs by Thom Yorke

OK Go by OK Go

Also I did order some Halloween CDs about a month ago hoping they would arrive before Halloween but I'm not sure that they will.

One is called 'Halloween Party Hits' which I ordered Sept. 10th

Another one is 'Welcome to my Nightmare' by Alice Cooper also ordered Sept. 10th

More news soon,

Ann

Buffy news

Buffy news

People have been asking if we can get Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 6 on DVD and we can't order it unfortunately. Here's what Baker & Taylor's listing states:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6(DVD: English Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles)

Publish Status:
MORATORIUM/NO Activity allowed

Hopefully some day it will be available again and I will order copies of it for the library.

Thanks for your patience Buffy fans!

What's new?

Hi Children's and Teen Librarians,

Several new movies are coming up in the Fall that are from Teen and Kids books. I'll be ordering more copies of the books for the library so those movie goers will have enough copies to read after they've seen the movie.

Some of the movies are ;

Where the Wild Things Are

Tin Tin

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Cirque du Freak

The Lovely Bones (not a Teen title but I think it has a lot of teen readers)

Precious - based on the novel Push

Also in movie news, there is a new movie coming out in October called 'Whip It' produced by Drew Barrymore and starring Ellen Page that's from a teen book and looks like a fun movie,

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/15/whip-it-movie-trailer/

I am ordering lots of copies of the book and when the movie hits DVD I'll order that too.

Thank you to the Green Valley Friends group who generously gave thousands of dollars to our materials budget this year! I had a great time spending that money.

Thank you!

Mid August

AUGUST

Children's news:

There is a new Amelia Bedelia book out called 'Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School' by Herman Parish and Lynne Avril.

Herman Parish is a nephew of Peggy Parish. This is a Picture book rather than a reader and gives us a look at Amelia when she is a kid in first grade so I think it will be a fun story.

I ordered lots of copies for the library.

You should be seeing new picture books about Halloween arriving soon too, and other holiday books soon.

Teen News:

The publishers are really jumping on the 'Twilight' books popularity and coming out with more vampire stories and other spin-offs.

I just ordered copies of 'Wuthering Heights' from Harper Teen and the cover has a beautiful rose

image on it, plus a medallion on the cover that says,

'Bella & Edward's Favorite Book'. So maybe a lot of Bella and Edward fans will come to the library and want to read 'Wuthering Heights' ?

I tried to copy and paste the image but I guess it is copyrighted so I couldn't do it.

Music CDs:

I ordered a batch of music CDs that I think teens will like if they're not already getting the music from iTunes or somewhere else. These artists were some I pulled from the recent Billboard charts.

These CDs include:

Sugarland Enjoy the Ride

Sugarland Love on the Inside

Paramore The Final Riot

Kanye West Late registration

Black Eyed Peas Bridging the Gap

More news later,

Ann

News in August

Hi Children's librarians
I've been ordering many new books lately and some older titles from the reading lists you have been sending my way. Thank you for those lists, they help me keep in touch with what kids are asking for when they are preparing for school.
I've been ordering Halloween children's books this week that should be here before Halloween and today I am seeing Christmas and Hanukkah titles in the B & T carts.
I'm Not Santa and Corduroy's Hanukkah are two new board books that I will be ordering this week.
I'm Not Santa is by one of my favorite author/illustrators, Jonathan Allen who wrote I'm Not Cute.

More news to come...
Ann

JULY news

July News

Hi fellow YA librarians,

I hope you are surviving the heat. Thank goodness the monsoons have officially begun!

I want to let you know that ordering new materials doesn't happen right away on July 1st even though the new budget year has begun.

Libby Jones has to go through the fiscal closing and make sure all of the accounts are paid off from last year. Once that is all cleaned up, then we get to order again.

I know there are long waiting lists on some titles and I have more copies on order to help with that.

I'm looking over the profiles and reading lists that you have all sent me to add new items to the collection and beef up our collection.

Right now I'm working on a Baker $ Taylor DVD cart of how to play drums, guitar, bass and keyboards for teens.

My favorite title so far here is 'The Zen of Screaming '

"It was only through a long process of figuring out how to really deliver those raw, heartfelt rock vocals without holding anything back - and without damaging her voice - that Melissa Cross discovered the technique that she teaches her students today"

From Melissa's web site.

Stay cool,

Ann

June Updates

June News from CDO

The CDO staff went to Toxic Ranch records and the 17th Street Market this week to meet the owners & managers there and talk about future buying at these stores. Both look like they will be great sources for local music.

17th Street has a lot of the more traditional music, folk, Latin, Lisa Otey & that kind of stuff.

Toxic Ranch is a little more alternative ? more ... young?? If you are near Fourth Avenue or downtown you'll have to visit there yourselves and give me your impressions.

So if Baker & Taylor doesn't carry music by local groups or bands or singers, the CDO dept. can try to get it through one of these two stores. I have already asked Toxic Ranch to try and get copies of CDs from the local teen bands who are going to play in the 'Rock a Book' concert.

July is the new budget year! Hooray! We can start ordering again!

Towards the end of May I ordered lots of DVDs. If you haven't seen these yet, they will be arriving soon at your branch -

• Go Diego Go: Great Gorilla
• The Jetsons
• Ballet Shoes
• Saturday Morning Carttons

and for teens:

• The O.C.
• Seventh Heaven
• My So Called Life
• 7th Heaven
• Smallville

Enjoy the summer,

Ann

MAY news

MAY

Summer is here! I have ordered a bunch of entertaining and educational DVDs for kids for the library lately.

Some of the titles are:

Goosebumps: The Ghost Next Door

Heroes of Freedom: Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman

Baby Dance

Bilingual Baby: French

All by Myself: Getting Dressed

Eyewitness: Mammal

I've also sent in a big order of I Spy books because someone pointed out to me that we needed to replenish the supply of these titles at the branches.

And due to all of your suggestions I have ordered more Dragon Slayers Academy titles, the Sluggers series by Loren Long, When the Whistle Blows by Slayton, and a few books on woodcarving for children.

For Teens I've ordered Supernatural: The Complete First, Second & Third Seasons on DVD. This came to my attention as a Teen patron suggestion from the library's web site 'Send us a suggestion '.

Also for Teens I ordered Revelations: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz as an Express title because there are lots of holds on it. It's another vampire story.

Stay cool!

Movies for teens

Teen Anime

Today I sent a cart off to Baker & Taylor with a batch of anime titles.

Pretty soon the catalog will display entries for 'Castle in the Sky' James Van der Beek

'Kodocha' Season One and Two

'Steamboy' K. Otomo

'Vexille'

'Prince of Tennis' Volumes 1 & 2

plus I ordered 'Room 222 ' Season One

Enjoy,

Ann

Assigned reading/classice

Assigned Reading in Schools or Classics

Please be on the look out for assigned reading lists and classic book lists that students might be bringing in before school ends this Spring.

I'd like to order more Classics for the library, especially those titles that teens need for school.

Send me copies of any book lists you see that teens are bringing into the library and I'll try and order more copies of those books.

Thanks very much!

Magazines

Magazines

Now is a good time to think about which magazines you would like your branch to subscribe to for the Fiscal Year 2009/10.

Look at the magazines your branch gets now for kids and teens and see how much use they are getting. Are some tattered and kind of beat up? Those are probably the most popular. Are some collecting dust and don't look as if anyone has disturbed them in months? Those are titles that maybe are not as popular any more.

When you have a chance look at what is being sold at your local grocery store, or book store in the kids section.

We deal with Ebsco for periodicals and they carry almost any magazine that you see on newsstands.

Have fun!

March 2009

Vampire Stories for kids

Have you seen the vampire stories for kids called Little Vampire ? They are by Joann Sfar and cataloged as Children's Fiction.

I'll order more of these and be on the look out for other vampire stories for children too.

February children's news

February news

I've ordered a lot of new Children's DVDs this month

'Chitty Chitty Ban Bang'

'Richie Rich'

'Goodnight Moon' with Billy Crystal

'Goosebumps: Return of the Mummy'

'Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight'

'Alvin and the Chipmunks'

'Mr. Mom'

'The Boy with the Green hair'

'My Girl' Anna Chlumsky

'Once Upon a Potty - for Him'

'Once Upon a Pottyy - for Her'

'Barney- Hit Favorites'

'I Love CAT Machines'

'Totally trucks: Garbage Monsters'

I sent in an order this month for Spanish board books including;

'Mis Primeros Animales'

'Pocoyo Can Count'

'Mis Primeros Palabras'

'Tito y Tina, la Estrella de Brillantina'

'Mis Primeros Colores'

'Mis Primeros Juguetes'

'A tato le Gusta Bañarse'

The funniest Children's book I've read lately is 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' by Jeff Kinney.

I bet you all would enjoy it. I actually listened to it on CD but I want to read the rest in the series!

New Teen DVDs February

February Teen DVD orders:

League of Their Own with Tom Hanks & Geena Davis
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo with Spencer Tracy
Splash: 20th Anniversary edition
The Fall of the House of Usher/The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price.
I'm thinking of the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe
Count of Monte Cristo
Great Santini Robert Duvall
Horse Whisperer Robert Redford

Now is a good time to think about the Teen collection profile you would like to see in the next fiscal year. Think about system wide collection needs for teens. What have you been asked for again and again?
We'll talk about it all at a future meeting - I think in April.

Jonas Brothers

I'm not sure what happened exactly with my order for Burning up : on tour with the Jonas Brothers but I did originally send an order for 53 copies of that book using Express funds in December.

The note in Acquisitions says, '1/21/09 Cancelled because of errors.Sending again'

I remember I had mentioned earlier that we would be getting many copies of this book so I wanted to let you know that it is still coming. You will see it on your Express shelves in a few weeks I hope.

And I hope the Jonas Brothers will still be popular !

Just yesterday I ordered some new DVDs for the system including:

'The Nightmare Before Christmas Collector's Edition.'

'Project Runway' Seasons 1-4

'Mars Attacks' (Tim Burton)



Children's News:

I checked all of the recent ALA award titles today and ordered all of the titles that we did not already own.

So you'll be seeing the Newbery, Caldecott, Siebert, Pura Belpre, etc. award books arriving pretty soon.

Many of these titles are on back order in the Baker & Taylor warehouse because of the demand across the country so they will come as they are available.



Happy Birthday Elijah Wood!

January Teen News

January Teen News:
I've been busy ordering paperbacks for the new Sahuarita Branch library that just opened last week. Now that I'm caught up with that I can tell you about some of the new Teen DVDs and CDs that I have ordered for the system.
DVDs
High School Musical 3'
Dirty Jobs 4 with Mike Rowe This set is 'thirteen episodes--including "Mackinac Island Horse Keeper," "Soap Maker," "Steel Mill Worker," "Floating Fish Factory Worker," and "Wind Farm Technician".
Maybe this will spark some career exploration?
Uncle Buck with John Candy
Three Men and a Baby
Journey to the Center of the Earth with Pat Boone
Hypnosis:Stop Smoking within One Hour

CDs
Freedom by Akon
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by Panic at the Disco
Move Along by All-American Rejects
Colby O by Colby O'Donis
Tha Carter by Lil Wayne
No Angel by Dido

and my favorite...
'We sing. We dance. We Steal Things'. by Jason Mraz

More news coming soon!

January News

January 2009 News! Happy New Year!
I have ordered a few more Children's and Teen books with the Express account so branches will see these arrive soon on the Express shelves:

Burning Up: On Tour With the Jonas Brothers
It's filled with ' 250 never-before-seen photographs and exclusive, candid interviews with the brothers.'
Diary or a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney.
This is a sequel to the other two Wimpy Kid books by Kinney.

Big Book News
I was able to order a batch of the Big picture books from a vendor and they have arrived. These will be perfect to use for large groups and Storytimes.
I'll be sending those to the January Children's meeting so you can see these and pick out a few for your branch. Please get ready to update your branch holdings on the Shared drive as well after you get back to your branch.

DVD News
I ordered some DVDs today that we used to own on video and some new titles too.
Some of the titles are:
'Elmo Loves You'
'Honey I Shrunk the Kids'
'Free to be...You and Me.' (Marlo Thomas)
'Open Season 2'
'Spngebob Squarepants - Spongicus'

Next I'll work on teen DVDs to order.

More news later,
Ann