Audiobook Collections & Services is recommended for any library seeking to develop an audiobook collection, including those for juvenile listeners: chapters cover the recommended selection standards, acquisition procedures, and how to select titles for both adult and juvenile audiences. An excellent survey.

Susan Baird's Audiobook Collections & Services is an 86-page compendium of practical advice and easy-to-follow instructions for planning, developing, marketing, and administering a school or community library audiobook collection. Following a concise history of the audiobook, Baird covers all aspects of planning, budgeting and evaluating a library audiobook collection; recommends selection policies; discusses narrators and abridgments; audiobook maintenance and repair; promotion and effective display; how to select titles appropriate for adult and juvenile patrons; acquisition and processing procedures; coping with censorship threats; shelving and circulation. Informative appendices including reviewing and collection development sources, suppliers, audiobook publishers and distributors, an annotated bibliography of classic audiobooks for adults and youth, major audiobook awards -- and recent award winners. Audiobook Collections & Services is a core title for library science students and an invaluable aid for staff librarians in small, medium, extended library systems.