Collection Development Services

Build Your Best Collection and Reclaim Time

Get the time-saving curation you need from experts you can trust with iCurate®, Ingram’s suite of collection development tools and services.

Curation Tools & Services to Fit Your Needs

iCurate Complimentary

Free
Curated Lists

iCurate Complimentary

iCurate Coming Soon

Forthcoming
Title Subscription

iCurate Coming Soon

iCurate inClusive

Effortless & Effective Diversity Audit

iCurate inClusive

iCurate Core

Essential Collection Gap Analysis

iCurate Core

iCurate Custom

Tailor-Made
Special projects

iCurate Custom

iCurate® Complimentary

Free Hand-Selected Lists & Commitment-Free Programs

Save time and easily maintain a relevant collection with 100s of regularly updated lists and 22 commitment-free new title alert programs, hand-selected by our team of MLS-degreed librarians. With an ipage® account, Ingram’s library customers have access to a variety of lists based on publishing trends, perennially popular topics, or customer requests—broken out by age, subject, and format.

iCurate Complimentary

High Interest Category Lists

Discover creative, timely, and regularly updated lists ranging from trending topics to replenishment must-haves.

Diversity by interest: Asian, Black, Indigenous Peoples, Latine, LGBTQIA+, Neuro and Physical diversity, and more

Top-selling titles from Ingram library customers

Holiday and Seasonal

STE(A)M and makerspace

Virtual book displays on trending topics

Audiovisual materials: audiobooks, videos, video games

Discover this month's Complimentary hand-selected lists.

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New Title Notification Programs

Receive commitment-free lists of new titles by enrolling in any of our ready-made standing order programs, from bestselling authors to series, continuations, and more. Plus, build your own alerts with iSelect®.

Adult

  • Author (Adult)
  • Forthcoming Popular Nonfiction
  • Inspirational Fiction
  • Mass Market Genre Fiction
  • Nonfiction Continuations
  • Nonfiction Series
  • Paperback Original Fiction
  • Popular Series
  • ReviewALERT℠ (Adult)
  • Travel Continuations

Youth

  • Author/Illustrator (Children’s)
  • Author (Teen)
  • Easy Reader
  • Nonfiction Series
  • Picture and Board Books
  • Popular Nonfiction
  • Popular Series
  • ReviewALERT℠ (Youth)

All Ages

  • Awards • Book Clubs • State Lists
  • Graphic Novel
  • iSelect
  • Popular Video
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An ipage® Account is Needed to Access iCurate® Lists

Learn more about ipage, schedule a demo, or contact your rep today.

iCurate® Coming Soon

Monthly Forthcoming Title List Subscription

Remove the guesswork from new title selection with this cost-effective, annual subscription of hand-selected lists of prepublication titles, delivered on the first of every month within ipage, and sized appropriately for your collection. Going beyond the standard bestsellers, Coming Soon lists are based on the typical public library’s English print collection needs, and include debut authors, surprise celebrity authors, and other unpredictable successes.

iCurate Coming Soon

Coming Soon Lists

Titles for every English print collection in the library

Content based on the needs of the typical public library—three months prepublication

Mix and match three list sizes for each collection based on circulation, budget, or selector preference

Enhanced Deduplication

(*exclusively* available with Coming Soon!)

Filter to include or exclude EANs in your holdings, on order, or on other selection lists

Refine Coming Soon lists, ipage search results, and selection lists

Mass-delete filtered duplicates, or make changes one title at a time

12-Month List Price

  • Adult, Teen, OR Children’s: $775
  • Adult, Teen, AND Children’s: $2,100 $2,325

Avoid gaps and missed titles while saving staff time to focus on special collections, local titles, and more. Learn more by visiting the Coming Soon FAQs or email iCurate@ingramcontent.com for more information.

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Coming Soon Collections

Adult

  • Fiction
  • Graphic Novels
  • Large Print Fiction
  • Large Print Nonfiction
  • Nonfiction (by Dewey Century)
  • Nonfiction Biographies

Children’s

  • Board Books
  • Easy Nonfiction
  • Easy Reader Fiction
  • Easy Reader Nonfiction
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Juvenile Graphic Novels
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Picture Books

Teen

  • Fiction
  • Graphic Novels
  • Nonfiction
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iCurate® Coming Soon Webinar Series

Join (y)our MLS-degreed librarians for a seasonal series on can’t-miss forthcoming titles by category that you’ll want on your shelves.

iCurate® inClusive

Effortless & Effective Diversity Audit

A truly diverse library collection can not only foster lifelong readers but promote empathy, understanding, and self-confidence.

Choosing books that reflect the diversity of human experience can be challenging.

Acknowledging a lack of diversity in the publishing industry can be limiting.

Knowing how to spend your budget can be daunting.

Save staff time and tedious effort with iCurate inClusive, a one-time diversity audit comparing your English regular print collection to the average public library to measure, track, and improve the diversity of your collection.

Intentionally and aggressively diversify your collection with data-driven reports,charts, and lists that compare your library holdings to inClusive’s public library customer average broken out by age, collection, and diversity category within two weeks.

inClusive Categories

Asian Interest

Black Interest

Indigenous Interest

Jewish Interest

Latine Interest

LGBTQIA+ Interest

Mental Health

Middle Eastern Interest

Multicultural

Muslim Interest

Neuro & Physical Diversity

Holdings Assessment

Compare your Library holdings to inClusive’s public library customer average to identify opportunities.

Holdings Assessment

Comprehensive Reports

Receive presentation-ready PowerPoint slides broken out by age, collection, and diversity category.

Comprehensive Reports

Actionable Lists

Easily fill the gaps with shoppable Excel lists of the most popular inClusive titles selling into public libraries.

Actionable Lists

One-Time List Price

  • Adult, Teen, OR Children’s: $1,500
  • Adult, Teen, AND Children’s: $4,200 $4,500
iCurate inClusive

inClusive Collections

Adult

  • Biographies
  • Fiction
  • Graphic Novels
  • Nonfiction (by Dewey Century)

Children’s

  • Board Books
  • Easy Nonfiction
  • Easy Reader Fiction
  • Easy Reader Nonfiction
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Juvenile Graphic Novels
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Picture Books

Teen

  • Fiction
  • Graphic Novels
  • Nonfiction
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3 Library Case Studies

Tune in to hear four librarian beta testers share their inClusive experience and answer questions, like:

What has been your experience with diversity audits?

What subjects surprised you with the inClusive report results?

What creative ways are you using the reports?

What actions have you already taken with the inClusive information?

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iCurate® Core

Identify Essential Titles Missing from Your Collection

Whether it’s staffing cuts, budget shortfalls, missing titles not replaced, or quick shifts in the political and social landscape—collections can easily, and understandably, get out of balance. Catch your breath with Core, a one-time set of lists to help you identify essential titles—whether classics, evergreen standards, or new releases—missing from your collection.

Easily rebalance, refresh, and refill your shelves with must-have titles for your adult, teen, and/or children’s collections with an author/title match from your holdings to our ideal public library English print collection.

Easy-to-use Excel file delivered within a week of purchase

Includes value-added fields such as: title detail ipage link, estimated cost that includes cataloging and processing, and public library title rank to help with prioritization

One-Time List Price

  • Adult, Teen, OR Children’s: $1,000
  • Adult, Teen, AND Children’s: $2,800 $3,000
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iCurate Core

Core Collections

Adult

  • Fiction
  • Graphic Novels
  • Nonfiction (by Dewey Century)
  • Nonfiction Biographies

Children’s

  • Board Books
  • Easy Nonfiction
  • Easy Reader Fiction
  • Easy Reader Nonfiction
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Juvenile Graphic Novels
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Picture Books

Teen

  • Fiction
  • Graphic Novels
  • Nonfiction

“I am already happy with the titles I wouldn’t normally see in my review lists. Gathering these titles would require extra work and time I rarely have. A+!”

— Jeremy Bloom

Lincoln Parish Library

“iCurate Core was a great help in rebuilding our collection. Instead of having to search for everything, we received a well-rounded list for every Dewey section. All we had to do was pick and plan an order! It made the whole process much less painful.”

— Janell Farris

Port Arthur Public Library

iCurate Custom

iCurate® Custom

Tailor-Made Special Project Curation

Allow (y)our librarians to supplement your collection development for time-consuming special projects to curate high-quality lists, tailored to fit your specific needs. Whether you’re in the midst of a library renovation, in a time crunch to spend an awarded grant, or in need of recurring lists for a special collection—we’re dedicated to serving you.

Expansions • Grants • Opening Day Collections • Year-End Spend • and More!

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