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?
There are new collection codes for this collection due to some being fiction and some being non-fiction: JCAN – Juvenile Caldecott Award Non-fiction; JCAF – Juvenile Caldecott Award Fiction; JNAN- Juvenile Newbery Award non-fiction; JNAF – Juvenile Award Non-fiction. JAB was an old collection code used for all the Award Books in general – no longer used by branches – may be used by Members – not sure? VHS Weed all VHS. Every stitch of it. All. Various other unique collections specific to certain branches Leveling Stop leveling. Place Beginning Readers books in a separate area. All beginning readers’ books are to be interfiled. Within a separate BR collection. Eric will look for a new genre sticker that says “Beginning Reader” Otherwise we will use the same Early Reader sticker. World Language Sections Talk to Janine and Elena about this before proceeding. Currently turnover is .41. We can keep the collection code and interfile items. Gem can create a Virtual Shelf in HIP that will list all World Language items. PIO Notification Write a short article to submit to PIO for all in the District to know what the committee is doing and be informed of what is happening now and in the future. Jerry and Sue will write the article. Topics for next meeting on 3/23/2011 Meeting 1 – 9:00 – 10:30 New – members will bring in their NEW status date schedule so we can standardize. Update on progress at branches. Update from Gem. Meeting 2 – Missing Pieces Process Develop a standardize process for storing of and replacing missing pieces. For example, 1 DVD or CD from a set.