Resource Alert: PLA Galley Guide

This week is the every, other year Public Library Association Conference in Nashville. As with all library conference, Library Journal puts together a Galley Guide, a list of all of the ARCs you can expect to find at the conference.

Here's the thing though, these guides are actually more useful to those left behind or to access and consult after attendees return. Why?

Click here to read my explanation from a last round of Galley Guides last spring. This post is about how and why Galley Guides are an excellent RA and Collection Development resource.

[Side note: please, if you are going to PLA don't be that person who has 6 bags of ARCs that you lug around.]

And click here for the 2020 PLA Galley Guide and get a jump on what books everyone is going to be talking about by reading about them today. Your colleagues who are running around and grabbing them frantically may posses the books in hand, but you will actually know what the books are about and why your patrons might enjoy them.

I will be there in Nashville from Thursday to Saturday and will have even more about some of the buzz early next week.

For now, whether you are Nashville bound OR #PLALeftBehind this is a resource that is useful to all.