Baker & Taylor Children’s and Teen Services have been partnering with youth services librarians since 1828. Our CATS specialists are dedicated to our mission of providing expertise on workflow and collection development that support your unique needs. Our suite of programs, including Collection Development Services, Selection Lists, Online Notification Services, the CATS Meow Newsletter, Title Talk Events, Automatic Shipment Programs, CATS Book Leasing, Follett Bound, and other customized services, all have been designed with youth librarians in mind to help best focus on their specialized library necessities.

Our website, cats.baker-taylor.com, serves as a portal for children’s and teen services. It provides news, contact information, bibliographies, programs, and much more. You will find it so informative that we recommend bookmarking it. Baker & Taylor’s Title Source 360 database offers over a million ISBNs for children’s and teen materials for which we offer high fill rates and distribution from strategically located sites throughout the country. Through TS 360 and our dedicated CATS team, you will be empowered to meet your collection development goals with fast search, simple batch ordering, inventory review and other capabilities.

With our Notification Services you will be in the know about what titles, series and trends are coming up as far ahead as six months prior to their publication date. You are able to choose from notification services that suite your workflow. In addition to our breadth of notification services, a variety of programs are available to support your selection and processing workflow. Choose customizable notification plans and automatic shipment programs for series, genres and more. CATS ensures that your library will receive efficient, quality service.

Baker & Taylor’s CATS website has ongoing new youth services information and promotions that you don’t want to miss. Access is right at your fingertips! Baker & Taylor Children’s and Teen Services is proud to have been dedicated to supporting Youth Service Librarians for 190 years and counting.

Visit CATS.baker-taylor.com to explore all we have to offer and the true CATS difference that sets us apart.

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