Title Wave Box Trailers

Today I helped Mrs. Deep go through some of the Box Trailers that Title Wave sent to her. A few times a year, Title Wave will send Mrs. Deep a box or two of books for her to go through and see if she wants to add them to her library's collection. First, Mrs. Deep checks each book to see if they have an AR test on Renaissance. If they don't she puts them back in the box and does not consider them at all. Then, she researches the appropriateness of the book (maturity of the content, profanity, and/or relevant to the curriculum). She often uses Goodreads, a website online that has a catalog of all types of books that offers information on the appropriateness of the book. It also have ratings from readers who have read the book.

After checking each book to see if they had an AR test, we discussed the next steps of purchasing the books. If Mrs. Deep decides to purchase the book for the library's collection, she emails Title Wave to tell them which books she wishes to purchase. Then, Mrs. Deep goes into Destiny, goes to vendors, selects the Title Wave vendor and makes SURE that the bar codes that they have for their books do not belong to one of her bar codes on a book within the library. Again, this would cause major confusion and aggravation if it is not fixed or avoided. We did not catalog or check the bar codes of the books because Mrs. Deep had not contacted Title Wave yet and she did not have access to the bar codes.