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
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
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
Julie
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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
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
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