U.S. Core Titles

YBP Library Services is pleased to make available U.S. CORE TITLES. YBP has developed, designed and implemented this service to aid academic libraries in assessing current collections and to allow smaller academic libraries the opportunity to benefit from participation with a seasoned vendor in collection development.

Each quarter YBP will release a segment of Core titles that will include about 250 titles. The profiling bibliographers at YBP select these titles for inclusion on the list, using a complex selection process. The profiling bibliographers, who describe each title book-in-hand, will maintain lists of titles each quarter, with each profiler responsible for specific topics, corresponding with the subjects each bibliographer focused on in their academic career. The titles selected are carefully screened to identify major titles that will stand the test of time, which would be considered standard (core) works in any good undergraduate collection. The four quarterly lists of 250 titles will be combined in January and form the Core list for that year, and be posted here as soon as possible (usually in February).

Each year over 50,000 new titles are published that have relevance to the academic market. The Core list is a valuable tool in assuring that essential titles are added to the collections. The skill, judgment, knowledge and experience of YBP's profiling bibliographers are the foundation upon which the Core list is built. Thus, the intellectual honesty in describing titles, a proud YBP hallmark, will remain and neither publishers nor trends will influence the selection of titles for the benefit of academic libraries.