Libraries across the country are looking for new sources after one of the country's largest book vendors announced its closure. Baker & Taylor sold books en mass to thousands of libraries. The closure will have a ripple effect, according to Cincinnati Hamilton County Public Library's Holbrook Sample. He says most of that effect will be behind the scenes.

“It may be we do some extra work, and hopefully you won’t notice a thing,” he says. “Hopefully you won’t feel a thing, and you‘ll get what you need.”

Holbrook says Baker & Taylor shipped books in a way that made it easy for CHPL to receive the books and get them on the shelves.

“They do a lot of extra work for other public libraries — like all the processing we do in-house, some libraries actually have Baker and Taylor do that processin

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