Abstract
To investigate the influence of reviews on public library fiction selection in a large, diverse geographic region, a study of fiction selection in Ontario public libraries vary greatly in the extent to which they depend on reviews for the selection of hardcover English language fiction. Overall, reviews are less important than non-review sources. This seems due to the existence of reliable pre-publication pre-review selection aids from sources such as the Ontario Library Services Center (OLSC) and the scarcity of pre-publication reviews of Canadian fiction. The study predicts similar diversity in other North American public libraries with considerable regional variation and, since pre-publication reviews of fiction from U.S. publishers are plentiful, with greater reliance on reviews by U.S. libraries.
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