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good morning to everyone except people who don't realize libraries have to pay for the MASSIVE number of books they purchase
There are public libraries that will purchase not just one but TEN or TWENTY copies of your book, that's a power buyer, but lol ok, if you don't want the sales???
Like do they think libraries are asking publishers for comped review titles????? (And that publishers would do it?!?!)
Anyway this is a shelf in my office of book club “kits” we use for group book discussions. They weren’t free.
These supplement (!!!) the circulating copies that were also purchased. With real-not-Monopoly money!
My experience as a librarian has been that particularly when it comes to book discussion groups, folks often say they wouldn't have picked the book up on their own. We facilitate multi-book purchases that readers would not make on their own.
And don't get me started on replacement titles! We often *re-purchase* titles. We get boxes of new and replacement Board books all the time, as well as juvenile titles that see a lot of use, esp if they (you lucky duck author!!) get on a school reading list.
In summary, libraries will buy a **lot** of your books, often more than once. We are often making a purchase that a single reader would not make, even if they saw your book in the store and thought 'hm.' We put your book in readers' hands, often creating lifelong author fans.
People whose work I first "met" in a library & whose work I now follow ~ and have placed purchase requests for subsequently in libraries I've worked in ~ so I can introduce more readers: @mdbell79 @LucyKnisley @BlairBraverman @MoniqueWMorris @comicnrrd @megelison
And that's just one quick lil scroll through my "purchase requests" Outlook folder 
Anyway off to make a staff picks display 
psst hey kid if your public library is open right now it means staff are not working from home during a pandemic, in order to provide you with books & access; if you aren't sure your local library is doing everything it can to #protectlibraryworkers this is your reminder to ask
We often don't have unions, so sometimes our best advocates are our biggest fans.
