Brodart's Collection Development specialists have the education, training, and work experience required to make important selection decisions within the realm of graphic novels. Our selection criteria narrows the range of material by selecting titles based on quality, popularity, and diversity.
We select library materials that include:
- the true graphic novel format, combining sequential art and text
- traditional comic strips
- books about graphic novels, artists, and illustrators
- "how to" drawing books
- descriptive books about the format
Our team of Collection Development specialists at Brodart has developed comprehensive and easy-to-understand guidelines for selecting the best graphic novels for your patrons. See our Graphic Novels FAQ for more information.
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Brodart's Graphic Novel Selector
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Brodart is proud to partner with Kat Kan to deliver quality selection lists of graphic novels. Popular series, classics, mainstream, and unique, Kat has her eye on them. Graphic novels continue to gain popularity and are a growing segment of libraries’ collections. Brodart takes seriously its commitment to provide collection development services to best serve the library community. |
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Kat Kan earned her MLS from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1981 and has worked as a librarian in children's and young adult services for more than 20 years. A life-long comic book reader, she started writing about comics and graphic novels for Voice of Youth Advocates in 1994 and has written the "Graphically Speaking" since then; it's the longest-running column devoted to comics and graphic novels in library literature. She also writes reviews for Diamond Comics Distributors' Bookshelf web site and selects all the graphic novels that appear in H.W. Wilson's Graphic Novel Core Collection. She started working as Brodart's graphic novel selector in 2003. In addition to all her work with graphic novels, Kat is also the library media specialist for a private preK-8 grade school in Panama City, Florida.
Look for Kat’s selections each month in Brodart’s PRIME catalog, peruse our online collection development and ordering tool, and review our quarterly flyer of graphic novel selections.
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