[ SECRET POST #2022 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2022 ⌋

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Comments

[truxillogical]

Have you tried talking to the librarians, or requesting a specific series?

Libraries respond to the public. That's why we have 30-odd copies of The Tooth Fairy 2. Because the public spoke out and told us they couldn't freaking wait to see Larry the Cable Guy in a pink tu-tu. Our library also has a crap-ton of manga because teens come in and request the hell out of it.

If you go and speak to a librarian (and make sure an actual librarian. Circ workers can do just about anything but order books) and have a specific series or two just to get the ball rolling, they'll probably do their best to meet your request, even if they just have to borrow it from other libraries.


I kind of see this argument a lot from people who come in from other parishes to get a card at our library. They tell us we have so many new movies (it's always the frickin' movies), and that their libraries don't have any. So they only come to us anymore, instead of talking to their local libraries about it. So their local libraries don't have the circulation numbers to get a better budget, and they don't get direct feedback about how they can improve those circulation numbers, so those libraries...continue sucking.

[firstmoonie]

What if he is not living in US?
What if librarians don't give a shit about it because it's overseas?
What if the native language isn't English?
What if?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

and if you don't try at all it definitely won't happen.

- Not in the US
- Request things not in english
- Sometimes I request things from overseas
- Sometimes what I want arrives, sometimes what I want doesn't.
- But if I don't ask I don't have a chance

[(Anonymous)]

this

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has a mom who is a librarian at a public library, I can assure you that it isn't as easy as just "asking" for something. Not only do libraries have a set budget as to how much they can spend on purchasing new copies of books/movies, but often the decision making is based upon the work's popularity and demand. Not to mention, libraries only have limited amounts of space. One person asking for a series is usually not considered enough to make it "worth it" to buy a series/book. And manga aren't considered "books", they're considered "graphic novels," which (again) lowers the chances of a library wanting to spend money on purchasing them.

Yes, of course, you can do inter-library loans. And of course you can ask for your library to buy some copies. But it's not a guarantee. (Heck, even if you request regular old YA fiction, it's still not that easy.)

And some libraries are just small and have smaller budgets because of the economic status of where they're located. Small town libraries will simply not have the budget to buy anything and everything, no matter how much people ask from it and no matter how great your circ numbers are.

(Maybe your library is different. Our town/my mom's library is in a upper(-middle) class town, so I am speaking primarily from that experience -- but she has helped out at libraries in poorer towns, so I know a little about that too.)

Tl;dr: Your advice makes sense, but not all libraries work the same.