It is more difficult now for me to track reading tastes at Catonsville since a lot of the reserves are made online. Most reserves I make are for New York Times best sellers, from authors that I have been placing on reserve for years. I am also asked a lot about women's literary fiction and popular Y fiction. Of course this is just the surface --most Sci Fi, Romance and Mystery readers go straight to the shelves -- as do a lot of the Y readers and graphic novel afficionados. We have had fewer juvenile and classic  reserves lately -- perhaps the schools just aren't requiring as many specific titles as before -- or perhaps the titles have changed altogether and people are finding them without our help. My Early Word discovery of the day was a mention of a relatively new phenomenon -- fiction for young people between the ages of 17-25 called New Adult fiction. It is contemporary and sexy -- oriented toward the challenges of becoming a fully functioning adult. ( oh, if they only knew how boring fully functioning adulthood is, they wouldn't even bother) A lot of it is the result of internet self- publishing and shows up in downloadable form before book form.  ( sort of like Fifty Shades which was originally on the Fanfiction website -- lots of fanfiction is now becoming downloadable from Amazon). I am now engaged in reading a title of this NewAdult fic , Hopeless, by Colleen Hoover. So far, it is palatable and rather astonishing ( high school sure has changed!) and I have only read a couple of chapters -- We shelve it with Fiction. Apparently there is a lot more explicisity ( a new word which I have coined to go with the NA fiction -- pick your category here, sex, violence, emotion, ) than in Y fic. It has been written about in the New York Times and is included in their Y book  best sellers. Sometimes the books are offered in two forms --unabashedly sexy internet downloads and censored paper copies. As if our Y kids cannot figure out how to download  -- Well, this stuff  doesn't stimulate  brain cells but could do the job on some  other parts -- and that is all well and good. Safe to say, that this is the new gold mine for publishing and more established authors who have kind of run out of steam in other endeavours. It will be interesting to follow the completely downloadable  trend here, to see if established authors begin to offer their works exclusively in this format.