For an academic library, we interact with the faculty to find out what they want. Their departments are given a budget and we buy what they want. For a public

For an academic library, we interact with the faculty to find out what they want. Their departments are given a budget and we buy what they want. For a public library, we get input from the public and also read Publisher's Weekly. We may get a curated title list from publishers on various subjects. We regularly generate reports on what is being read and checked out, but those are mainly meant to determine what to remove from the shelves.