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Director's Thoughts #10 – Shifting Collections
After you weed the entire collection… what do you do next? That was my question, after spending 5 months and countless hours running reports, scanning, stamping and sorting books. The next step for us…. shifting the collection. Although tight, our children’s department had a lot more wiggle room at the…
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Weeding, Weeding, and More Weeding
Our library is embarking on a massive weeding project over the course of the next few months. Weeding has been done for many years, but without too much of a game plan in place and without specific guidelines written out for each section. That is, until a reference librarian bought…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/24/16
This was a strange week in terms of reading – I’m still struggling my way through Start With Why by Simon Sinek. For whatever reason, I’m not drawn to pick this book up, but when I do, I enjoy reading it. But, I did get a chance to read The Mighty Odds…
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Book Display: Show Books Some Love
We’ve been very busy weeding books throughout our department, but we had found a lot of books in our picture book area that are beautiful, relatively new books that haven’t circulated well, so we’re hoping we can save them! I’ve seen a lot of libraries offer book displays for books…
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New Collection/Rebranding an Old Collection
I’ve been posting about our progress as we rebrand one of our collections in the children’s department. The collection is what we currently call the Bridging Collection, mostly picture books that are for an older audience as well as a catch-all location for materials that don’t fit easily into the…
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You Get to Read All Day, Right?
I wish! I absolutely love when people assume that as a librarian, I just get to sit around all day and read! It’s one of those days that is decidedly busy with a ton of projects that I’m juggling all at the same time! One of our elementary school 4th…
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Focused Collections & Weeding
A co-worker and I are slowly working through some weeding projects in the library. Our first project of the new year consists of a collection that our library titled “Bridging Collection.” As in, bridging from easy readers to chapter books or picture books for elementary-age students. Mainly focused on picture…
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Weeding – no, not the kind that happens with plants
We’re currently in the middle of a a large weeding project at my library because it’s one of those things that is (a) something that has to happen all the time, (b) desperately needing to be done in a number of areas, and (c) is something that takes time and…