This master's thesis deals with the research of the possibilities of evaluating book production in public lending libraries in Slovenia. The libraries are the ones that pick from a vast mass of the book market those titles that shall later be offered to the reader. Furthermore, with the assistance of The Manual for Reading Quality Youth Literature, which is organized by The Centre for Youth Literature and Librarianship under the supervision of Ljubljana City Library, it comprehensively shows the experiment of evaluation and depicts the processes and reasons for existence, as well as a line of establishing this kind of system of evaluation. To shed some light on how a system like this functions, the work analyses and stratifies the editorial board, who are the minds behind the Manual for Reading Quality Youth Literature. On the basis of this thorough analysis and data processing of the evaluation and introductions of the Manual, it seeks key moments which point to how the system of evaluation has gradually evolved to its present form. The work concludes that The Centre for Youth Literature and Librarianship offers expert guidelines in buying new titles, forming the library opus, additional purchases, passing the books onto the public and that the concept of evaluation is a good example of including various experts from different fields into the yearly evaluation of youth literature. This practice displays a good instance and an important starting point to ponder over a similar project of evaluation of books which would make sense in other fields in Slovenia.
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