Exploring your answers to these questions will help you clarify what you think about the library's role in promoting books:

• Are we in danger of becoming the double-glazing salesmen of literature?
• If you ask for it, we'll find it, but what if you don't know it can be asked for?
• Is promotion fundamentally patronising?
• Children's librarians have an explicitly developmental role in supporting children's reading.  What of this is appropriate to carry into adult work?  Do the values or attitudes need to change in doing this? 
• How far is the library role to provide the popular books everyone asks for and how far is it to promote books which are not in the mainstream commercial market?  Should we be market-driven or not?