Dana received four responses to the Magazine Quick Survey. Future Quick Surveys will be even shorter to try to get more responses. Popular titles mentioned were Doubletake, Fresh, Code, Architectural Digest, Cosmo, Essence, PC World, Vanity Fair, Self.
Some branches do add many good titles from their gifts.
Branch librarians bring good-looking gift books to branch meetings for other branches to check. Committee members suggested looking into a Library School student field placement that would be used to investigate other places to donate gift books. Prisons, churches and women's shelters were some of the suggested sites. The Committee discussed weeding requirements and weeding assistance. Many members noted that weeding is a basic part of the collection development section of the performance evaluation.