Genevieve Luthy

It is complicated.

Yeah.

And we have a digital selector whose sole job really is to manage selection in Libby.

And so she's always making choices about what am I going to buy that's new.

But because we have these licensed models where something expires after two years, she's also looking back to say, well, what older titles are still popular?

And we have to manage our budget by there's that balance between what's the new content that we need to buy.

But all these old titles that are still popular, we need to renew them.

So there is limited budget.

So we're always making those choices.

And that's

That is usually if your library, you have to wait a bit for an audiobook or ebook, that's usually why, right?

We're in this position where we're making choices about how to apply our limited funds.

Yeah, we can see we have circulation data so we can see what's being checked out.

We run holds reports to see what titles have long hold lists.

The notify me tags are something that we can use to gauge interest.

And our selectors are always scanning what's out there in the media.

Was there something that was talked about on the local news that might be of interest?

We look at our local papers to see what the best sellers are there.

So we're always sort of scanning to see what's out there.

What are Calgarians interested in right now?