Making a Collection Count

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1 Making a Collection Count Holly Hibner and Mary Kelly Making a Collection Count and image Holly Hibner and Mary Kelly

2 Collection Life Cycle Selection Weed or Replace Acquisitions Repair & Maintenance Processing & Cataloging Re-Shelving Checkout (Use) Shelving Image Holly Hibner and Mary Kelly

3 Collection Management Policies Management = control and attention Development = growth Image attribution: George Goodwin Kilburne [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

4 Collection Management Policy Include: General selection criteria Genres, formats, and collections Cooperatives or resource sharing Preservation, conservation, maintenance Weeding efforts Holds to copies ratio Image attribution: By GNOME icon artists (GNOME SVN / GNOME FTP) [GPL ( via Wikimedia Commons

5 Collection Objectives Collection policy states how the collection will fulfill the mission Collection objectives detail the purpose of each collection and criteria for selection. Image attribute: (Licenced for reuse)

6 Collection Benchmarks How is the collection performing? Image attribute: (Licensed for reuse)

7 The How and Why Wonder Book of Beginning Science Notkin 1960

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9 Image attribution: Sorting

10 The Circulation Metric Define circulation Check-out, renewal, and check-in? Is that three metrics or one? Image attribute: Public Domain CC0

11 Circulations Over Time

12 Decorating to Please Him Bradford 1970

13 Group Metrics Group metrics describe the activity of a whole collection. How does one collection perform compared to another? How old is the collection? How do e-books compare to print? What items are likely to be damaged?

14 Average Age vs. Median Age

15 Early Detection: Breast Cancer is Curable Strax 1974

16 How To Sell Your Car for More Than It s Worth Hill 1977

17 Relative Use Collection Size Total Circulation

18 Item Metrics Item metrics describe the activity of a single item in the collection. How does its use compare to other titles? How old is it? What is its physical condition? Is there an updated edition available? Is there a better title?

19 The New Hotdog Cookbook Roate 1968

20 The Second Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes From Famous Eating Places Kennedy 1954

21 Applehead Dolls for Pleasure and Profit Dotson 1962

22 Hand and Rod Puppets: A Handbook of Technique Fettig translated by Susanne Forster 1973

23 Physical Inventory Compare what you actually have to what the computer says you should have. Image: (labeled for reuse)

24 What You ll Discover Inaccurate call numbers Mislabeled items Items marked missing Items that are weird!

25 Be Bold with Bananas Banana Control Board 1970

26 Diet, Crime, and Delinquency Schauss 1981

27 Brass Rubbing Norris 1966

28 Weeding Weeding criteria Who s job is it?

29 A good library is like a good haircut. It s not what you cut it s what you leave. CREW, Anne Felix, Grand Prairie (TX) Public Library System

30 But the public doesn t get it

31 But it s historical

32 But someone might need it

33 But I don t have time

34 But it was an award winner!

35 But it was a gift!

36 Weeding Personalities The Hoarder The Randomizer The Professor The Snob

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39 Weeding Made Easy Step 3: Stupid

40 Avoid the Weeding Frenzy

41 What are people supposed to think?

42 Case #1: San Francisco Neglected to get staff on board - Inadequate planning of disposal - Careless weeding?

43 Case #2: Fairfax County Improper disposal of items - Poor planning and execution - Lack of input on new plan by staff and patrons

44 Case #3: Urbana Free Library Mismanagement, policy not followed - Too much too fast - Inadequate preparation - No public explanation

45 Case #4: Berkeley Public Library Too much too fast - Inadequate staff preparation and participation - Lack of documentation

46 Everything is Connected Image attribute: (Labeled for reuse)

47 The Computer from A to Z Kalman 1999

48 Hand Feeding Baby Birds Cooper 1979

49 Bruce Jenner s Guide to the Olympics Jenner and Abraham 1979

50 Fashion Cats Iwasa 2011

51 Thank you!