Large Print Fiction

Anyone need Large Print Fiction? We have some duplicates and are generally crowded. We are glad to share.

Civil War History Set

STR has a very nice 4-vol. set of the Civil War history War for the Union by Allan Nevins which is not circulating well at this branch. Would anyone else be kind enough to give it a second chance in a new home? The call number is 973.7 and it only takes up 6 1/2 inches of shelf space

Easy Readers

ASH has bins full of ER books that we are unable to squeeze on our shelves. (We pulled mostly Halloween, Thanksgiving & DUPs) Is anyone willing to take a bin?
Thanks,
Heather

YA materials

Rust has too much YA materials, especially book fiction. We have three copies of some titles. If anyone has a need for any YA materials, Rust can help you out.

"J" Non-fiction

Rust needs to move some "J" nonfiction from our shelves. Does anyone have room?
Maureen

YA Books-on-CD

We are completely out of space for this collection. Can anyone take some off our hands? Please let us know how many titles/inches you have room for.

Adult nonfiction books

Rust has nonfiction. Rust has so-o-o much nonfiction that the dog books are barking, the science books are mutating and the travel books are leaving town. Can you help, please? Any area that you need, we can supply.

Holly and Karim

Playaways

We are struggling with the Playaway section again. Today we shifted the entire Books-On-CD section and moved all of the adult Playaways. This still leaves us with no wiggle room in adult but is better than the "falling off the shelf" mode they were in and finally gives us space for the YA, J & E titles. Can anyone take any adult titles off our hands? Pretty please?

Juvenile Books on CD

We have lots of duplicate titles. Can anyone take some Juvenile Books on CD?
Thanks,
Deborah

Adult Non-Fiction DVD's

Hi, other branches! Anybody out there in need of some adult non-fiction DVD's? Rust @ Catoctin is full and overfull.

By subject, by Dewey number, by title --- however you would like. Please let us know.

Karim and Holly

Travel Again?

I will try again just in case anyone has space for travel books! Let me know if you can take any or if you want some from specific subjects. We will gladly send shiny new books.

Adult Fiction--too scared of Halloween to stay at Rust

We've got lots of adult fiction, print format, that's ready for a new home. Whether you need specific parts of the alphabet filled in or specific genres or just a variety pack, we'll work with you. Let us know--

Holly

ER Non-Fiction

LOV has about 40 ER Non-Fiction that are bulging our little shelves. Any takers?

Art books

Do you have room for some art books? We have a lot, especially on the 20th century.

Large Print books are easy on the eyes

Rust has large print fiction and non-fiction to swap away... Do you have room for adult large print?

Holly

Adult Fiction Books on CD longing for a new home!

Shelves at Rust are overloaded. Sad, books on CD are looking for a new home. Won't you offer these orphans some space on your shelves? Please...

Holly

TOO LITTLE ROOM..

Rust needs to move some "J" fiction and "YA" fiction. Does anyone have some room?
Maureen

YA Graphic Novels

Lots of YA Graphic Novels have floating into PUR, can anyone take any of these?

Kodocha
From Far Away
Alice 19th
The Plain Janes
Paradise Kiss
Asterix
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

DVDs & CDs

Rust has an abundance of "E" DVDs, "J" DVDs and "J" CDs. Does anyone have an empty shelf to give them a good home?
Maureen

Replying to Posts

At today's meeting, the reference managers agreed that someone from each branch should respond to each post. That way, people looking to add/get rid of materials won't have to follow up with phone calls or emails if there are few or no responses. A simple "Sorry, can't help you" will do, (unless, of course, you can help).

If you're not checking SwapAway every day, you might want to sign up for email notification. If you scroll down, you'll see the FeedBlitz box.

Thanks.

Julie

Travel Books, Travel Away?

Anyone out there able to take travel books? These are all current editions. Just let me know how many and if there are any particular areas you want.

ANF DVD's anyone?

LOV has some ANF DVD dups to go to a good home. Any takers out there?

J Fiction and NF Duplicates

PUR's shelves have lots of duplicate titles in both J Fiction and J NF - anyone want some? Examples include Miss Daisy is Crazy and Eyewitness Shakespeare. We also have several Once Upon a Potty books to spare if needed somewhere else.

Large Print Anyone?

Can anyone take some large print off our hands? We have about 10 inches of space left to shelve LP books. I hesitate to weed this collection too heavily since it is all in good condition. Please let me know if you have room before I have to start discarding.

Adult Fiction and Nonfiction

Ashburn has zero shelf space in both adult fiction and nonfiction. We are weeding as fast as we can but can't keep up. If anyone can take some off our hands please respond! We will only send out good condition items that don't meet weeding criteria. Let us know if you are looking for certain subject areas, authors, etc.

Come and get 'em

Rust has an abundance of adult fiction on CD. Great stuff that is just right for your commuting patrons. This is too good to pass up.

Tell you what--you don't need to come and get them, we'll put them in delivery to you!

YA FICTION

Our YA fiction shelves are full. We have lots of good titles needing a new home.

PICTUREBOOKS

RUST needs to move some "E" fiction. We have many duplicates on our shelves.

YA overflow at ASH

Hello, we have many teen titles in lovely condition that do not fit on our shelves!
Could you take a few to help us out? I promise not to send you titles you already have.

Board Books

MID has many board books all in perfect condition. Is any branch interested in receiving some?

Travel Books

Me again, looks like Ashburn patrons have been traveling this summer and are returning bunches of books! We seem to be overloaded and may have almost all of LCPL's books in these subjects:

Florida
New York
San Francisco
Australia
Spain
Malaysia
Italy
Germany
London

Please check your shelves and let me know what subjects you would like and the max you can take. We have multiple copies of many series so more than one branch can request a subject. I'll make sure you don't get dups!

Super Service

Hi everyone, until floating ASH had almost no adult super service to speak of except a classics spinner and a few Harlequins. But now we are getting flooded with super service paperbacks and have nowhere to put them. Can anyone take some off our hands?

950-999

Out of space in the 950-999 adult nonfiction section. Lovely, pristine books going for a low price. We have a number of dups that we could send out. Anyone have room?

Playaways Again

We have too many playaways again! If anyone would like some please respond. We have Adult, YA, J and E titles. We could easily ship out 50 without a problem.

Need Adult Non-Fiction DVDs?

PUR's adult NF DVD shelves are packed tightly. Would anyone like some, from any Dewey area? We have lots in all classifications, very few duplicates. Let me know.

Adult Fiction on CD

Treat your commuting patrons to some more books to lighten their road. Rust has books on CD to swap--Can you pass up The Debutante Divorce by Plum Sykes? Perhaps you'd prefer some of the older favorites--McNally's Caper by Lawrence Sanders or Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters. Let us know--

Grown up Music CD's

Howdy pardners! Any of y'all got some room for some music CD's for adults? Any ol' genre you need. We gots us plenty -- especially the country and western!

900's? We've got some to spare

Anybody got space in the 900's? -- not you Cascades, I know you don't...

We've got world travel (italy, france, india), US Travel (New England mostly), biography (good ones), and world war 2. All in good shape, all the travel is the current edition.

Thanks,

Karim

We need movies!

MID has a very small collection of Adult Fiction DVD's on the shelf at any time. We would appreciate any Adult DVD titles that are crowding other branch shelves. We have quite a bit of space in DVD Adult and DVD J shelves.

Please think of us when you have crowded shelves!

Sheila

Too many romances at LOV

One of our patrons has been vigorously reading romances from around the system and they are starting to crowd our shelves. I have 36 that I would like to swap if anyone is interested.

Names and branches

Just a reminder -- please put your name and branch on all posts and comments. It would also be helpful if you added labels for each post with your branch designation and some indication of the type of material you are swapping. That will help later on as we try to see where the materials are flowing. Thanks!

Julie
Trailview

Playaways Go Away

Ok, we have waaaaay to many Playaways to fit on our shelves right now. We can easily send off 30. We have Fic, Nonfic, YA, J and E. Please respond with the type and number that your branch can accept.

YA fiction needs a good home

Ashburn's teen fiction section is bursting at the seams. More than 60 titles could go and barely leave a dent. I've pulled duplicate and triplicate titles. They are in good condition, some are brand new. I'll gladly send any quantity you may need. - Vivy

Adult Fiction

Ash is full-up with adult fiction. We are weeding for condition but we've run out of room to shift. We'd like to pull duplicates and send them off to good homes. Are there any branches needing fiction? We can send a couple hundred without blinking so let me know how many you'd like. We'll pull a cart of dups then quickly scan before we send out so you don't end up with more copies of something you already have on your shelf. Let me know!

TOO little space!

The Rust YS area is enjoying the larger collection, however, we are getting too full in some areas.

We have about 25 "J" & "YP" fiction titles that are duplicates and need another home. Please let me know if you can handle a few of them.

Thanks, Mo

Fiction for grownups

We seem to have a lot of grown-up readers! Our general adult fiction is beyond full. Anybody want some duplicates, some late-model shiny stuff, some sleepers, or some of those cataloged romances? Or, really, anything? We could swapaway over 300 titles this week and still be quite snug. Thanks, Karim

MID has too many Large Print Fiction titles. Would anyone like 10-20 titles?

Sheila

MID has duplicate Playaways for the following titles Wuthering Heights, The King of Torts, Macbeth, and 2 copies of Team of Rivals.



Anyone want/need these?

Sheila

Bins

Pulled from AskAway:

Totally separate query: Can we ask our "swap-away" people to just put a note stating "SWAP AWAY" on the top of these particular bins of transit. This would really help us circulation staffers out. Thanks in advance.

Of course, this was from Anonymous with no indication of branch. So if it does not make sense to you, I guess you could ask your circ people or tack another comment on AskAway.

Julie

Ashburn to Rust: quid pro quo?

Karim,

Ashburn can accept 20 titles each from these problem areas: Law, Baby Care and Child Raising, Health, and Movies.

Will Rust accept any extra copies from our travel and adult fiction sections?

Steven

Adult Non Fiction: Business and resumes

I made a mistake -- there's one more section we really need to thin. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

Anybody need Business and Resumes (i.e. 650's)? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Last one for now, thanks all.

Karim

Adult Non-fiction: Literature

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

Anybody need Literature (i.e. 800's)? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Last one for now, thanks all.

Karim

Adult Non-Fiction: Sports and Movies

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

Anybody need Sports and/or Movies (i.e. 790's)? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Thanks,

Karim

Adult Non Fiction: Baby and Child Raising

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

Anybody need Raising Babies and Kids (i.e. 649)? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Thanks,

Karim

Adult Non-fiction: Human Health

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

Anybody need Human Health? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Thanks,

Karim

Adult non-fiction: Law

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

Anybody need Law? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Thanks,

Karim

Adult Non-fiction: Gardening and Pets

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

Anybody need Gardening and Pets? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Thanks,

Karim

Adult non-fiction: Biography and Memoir

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.


Anybody need Biography and Memoir? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

Karim

Adult Non-Fiction : Drawing, Crafts and Sewing

Our Adult Non-fiction shelves are full plus at this point. If you've got some space and a need, please help us out by taking some books.

I'm going to send out a number of swapaway posts based on broad subject categories -- it might be more easy to respond if i do one category per post. If not, tell me, I could just as easily put them all in one big post.

Anybody need Drawing, Crafts and Sewing? Please reply with your branch name and a ballpark number you'd like.

McNaughton's

Leah reminded me of something I had forgotten: McNaughton's should not be swapped/transferred between branches. They should be converted or returned just as they always have been. I know Mary Lou discussed this at some of our branch visits, but I'm not sure it was communicated at all of them. Thanks.

Julie

Requesting materials from other branches

Hello everybody. Mostly I stay on the sidelines, but I'm going to jump in the game to clarify SwapAway's role in balancing the collections. As you know, one of the benefits of a floating collection is that over time, each branch's collection will more closely reflect the tastes and interests of the people who use it. We're letting the patrons decide where materials should go -- and speaking as one of the people who used to make that decision, it is a huge relief!

The key phrase here is "over time". We really have to be patient and let the system work. And everyone has to accept that their library's collection is not going to stay the same. It's going to be more fluid, and some things are going to float away forever and not come back. When that happens, it is a sign that they belong somewhere else, and that's OK.

I'm asking all of you to refrain from using SwapAway to micromanage your collection. If you have too much of something, weed and shift (if you can) before trying to send it somewhere else. If you see an area that's getting thin, wait for a while and see what happens. It might fill up again. I'm not saying that you shouldn't use SwapAway at all. But if you see an area that seems out of balance, watch it for a week or so to see how it changes on its own instead of posting right away. You might find that it takes care of itself. In fact, I would advise you not to ask for materials to be sent to your branch for the time being -- just until we have a better macro-level view of how floating is working.

I understand that this is all kind of loose and open to interpretation. I believe the picture will become clearer as we go along. Please feel free to comment or contact me in some other way.

Julie

McNaughton's Looking Bare

Our display of McNaughton's is very empty, not sure if that is from floating or from increased circ. If anyone has some extra, their display area is looking tight, we'll gladly take some off your hands. We have space for 10, though any is appreciated. Thanks!

Veggie Tales Anyone?

LOV is in need of Veggie Tales DVDs, if you have any on your shelves. It's one of those series that we are used to having for our browsing patrons, but since Floating, it has floated away! Any dups or others that you can spare, we would appreciate!

Floating away

Does anyone have an overflow of Fiction dvds?
Well, Mid will gladly take them off your hands.

Hungry for a book?

Rust shelves are filling. We’d be happy to share some of our cookbooks—

10 cookbooks for people with diabetes
9 Italian cookbooks

duplicates of the following—

American History Cookbook
Smart Cook Collection-Chicken
Carbohydrate Addicts No Cravings Cookbook

Bill Nye ... THE Science Guy!

We have approximately 40 Bill Nye DVDs at ASH. Is anyone in desparate need of the Science Guy? Let me know.

Virginia Reader Choice Book

LOV has three extra copies of Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone, due to the Virginia Readers' Choice book club. Originally, before floating, they belonged to CAS (1), and ASH (2). Let me know if you would like them back.

740 Explosion!

Here at ASH we have too many books in our 740s. I have...

17 Knitting
6 Crochet
6 Needlework
9 Beading/Beadwork
6 Quilting
6 Dried Flower Crafts
10 Cartooning/Manga (how to draw)
8 Candlemaking

All of these must go! Low, low prices! These are nice books, I've weeded anything in poor condition. Please respond with your branch and how many you'd like. Thanks.

Dora needed at ASH

If anyone has dups of Dora titles, please send to ASH. Our shelf is empty. Thanks.
Heather

Little Mermaid DVDs

Sterling has 5 copies of this movie, 3 of which are on our shelves.
Anyone want one?

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Testing the Waters

Just wanted to make sure I work!