We’re Junior Library Guild (JLG) – a literary review and selection service for children’s and young-adult books, established in 1929 and used by more than 17,000 librarians today.
Why do 17,000 librarians turn to us year after year? They get award-winning books to help them develop exceptional collections, delivered with the best customer service in the industry. We're proud of our account team. Upon joining, you’ll be assigned an account manager who will learn your unique needs, constraints, and processing requirements. You’ll always know who to call with a question or need.
Like most librarians today, you’re pressed for time, resources, and money. Selecting books for your collection is just one of the myriad tasks you have to accomplish each day. That’s where JLG can help.
With our collection development service, we can provide your library with the books you would select on your own -- we just make it easier and less expensive.
Since 1929, librarians have depended on JLG as their partner in collection development.
- Our editors do the legwork for you – by reviewing and selecting from more than 3,000 manuscripts every year from the foremost children’s publishers.
- Our 28 Reading Levels allow you to create a mix that fits your library perfectly.
- For each Reading Level you join, you receive one book each month for one year.
- You'll get great books. More than 95 percent of JLG selections go on to win other awards or earn starred or favorable reviews from the leading review journals.
Need proof? Here are just a handful of titles JLG members received over the decades (as first-edition, hardcover, new-release books) that later became award-winners, best-sellers, and enduring classics. - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Make Way for Ducklings
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Olivia
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
But don’t take just take our word for it. Take a look at the the column to your right to read what a few of your colleagues have to say about Junior Library Guild. Interested in having tomorrow's award winners on your shelves today? Click here to learn how your library can save time and money with JLG's collection development service. | Librarians Love JLG! “You continue to offer an outstanding program. In addition to serving as an elementary school specialist, I teach ed media classes at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. I always share your catalog with new media folks in class. We continue to be astounded by your high quality and low price. Thank you.”
—Catherine Beyers
Southern Bluffs Elementary School
La Crosse, Wisconsin
“I really admire the selections. Every title has been one I would have chosen myself for our library. I appreciate that JLG has done the extra work to free my time for other efforts.”
—Kathryn Shepler
Aurora School Library
Oakland, California “I look forward to receiving JLG books each month and keep the resource catalog on my desk to avoid duplication. Any book I receive from JLG will make some best book list.”
—Ann Lhota
Bellerose Avenue Elementary School
East Northport, New York
“As a fifteen-year subscriber, I have often been impressed with the quality of your subscription. I have recommended the JLG to several other junior high media specialists and each one has thanked me.”
—Patricia Powell
West Junior High School
Columbia, Missouri
Read more comments from JLG member libraries here. |