Library Manager Meeting 17, 2011 – Barb Wright-Wisner (Carbon Valley) Laura Burnett (Centennial Park), Charlene Parker (Farr), Cindy Osborne (Lincoln Park), Rita Kadavy (Outreach), Elena Rosenfeld (Assoc Director), Tony Brewer (Erie - minutes) Terri had a meeting with the floating collection committee yesterday; wanted to update the library managers on where we are at. Each branch has a representative, so that if there are questions those can be channeled through them. Will be meeting next week, (March 23) and may need to meet every week. The minutes of the March 16 meeting are included at the end of this document so managers can review in detail. In the library manager meeting, Terri highlighted a few things from yesterday’s discussion. J kits. weed all J Kits that have cassettes. Only 9% have circulated since 2010. Sharon will contact each staff member so they know what to do. Adult fiction. In locations we now have mystery, science fiction, etc. Will be doing a batch change so that these all say fiction’. All will be intershelved. ‘adult Eric to check if subject heading searches will still draw these out. Will still retain genre stickers and spine labels. DVDs. the plan is to start the floating collection with the dvd collections, to see if the system works correctly. Tentative test date is April 1. Spine letters. Tech Services will begin to place alphabetic letters on books, per the following: Board books alpha character – Easy fiction alpha character and author spine label – Beginning readers sticker and label – Spanish board books alpha character and Spanish sticker – Spanish easy fiction alpha character and spine label. – Spanish juvenile and juvenile non fiction spine label and sticker – Rita will be added to committee because there are special questions/issues regarding outreach in a floating collection. Barb: will we be retrofitting everything?
Library Manager Meeting – 17, 2011 Barb Wright-Wisner (Carbon Valley) Laura Burnett (Centennial Park), Charlene Parker (Farr), Cindy Osborne (Lincoln Park), Rita Kadavy (Outreach), Elena Rosenfeld (Assoc Director), Tony Brewer (Erie - minutes) Terri had a meeting with the floating collection committee yesterday; wanted to update the library managers on where we are at. Each branch has a representative, so that if there are questions those can be channeled through them. Will be meeting next week, (March 23) and may need to meet every week. The minutes of the March 16 meeting are included at the end of this document so managers can review in detail. In the library manager meeting, Terri highlighted a few things from yesterday’s discussion. J kits. weed all J Kits that have cassettes. Only 9% have circulated since 2010. Sharon will contact each staff member so they know what to do. Adult fiction. In locations we now have mystery, science fiction, etc. Will be doing a batch change so that these all say ‘adult fiction’. All will be intershelved. Eric to check if subject heading searches will still draw these out. Will still retain genre stickers and spine labels. DVDs. the plan is to start the floating collection with the dvd collections, to see if the system works correctly. Tentative test date is April 1. Spine letters. Tech Services will begin to place alphabetic letters on books, per the following: Board books – alpha character Easy fiction – alpha character and author spine label Beginning readers – sticker and label Spanish board books – alpha character and Spanish sticker Spanish easy fiction – alpha character and spine label. Spanish juvenile and juvenile non fiction – spine label and sticker Rita will be added to committee because there are special questions/issues regarding outreach in a floating collection. Barb: will we be retrofitting everything?
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