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Enliven your collection
- 1. ENLIVEN YOUR COLLECTION How to use weeding & display to wow users
- 2. Can weeding be a free & easy way to encourage patrons to see the library in new ways?
- 3. 100 years of weeding
- 5. Collections Compared • The oldest item in the BD collection is from 1943. •The oldest item in Horicon collection is from 1985.
- 9. WWND?
- 12. Displays get stuff out the door.
- 13. Just move it
- 15. Make it easy
- 19. Horicon WHY
- 21. “when a book once gets on the shelves, it seems to acquire in the eyes of most librarians a peculiar virtue and reverence, irrespective of any service it may render” Wynkoop, 1911
- 22. Point-of-need display works best
- 23. Weed. Display. Use space creatively. Ask your users what they think.
Notas del editor
- WhoWhatwhy
- Charles Francis Adams Jr 1898 Quincy PlanBig 542% save space30% relevant/avoid obsolescence14% user perception (attractiveness)9% increase circ5% avoid misinformationMoving to outcomeOutput/outcome
- Whose perceptions matter?Dilevko and Gottlieb (2003)91.8% of surveyed librarians believed weeding increases book usage86.1% thought it increases patron satisfaction quote from pg. 90.74% of survey respondents mentioned their “desire to present the library as a vital, vibrant, and up-to-date community resource” (Dilveko & Gottlieb, 2003, 80 ) and weeding could be one method of increasing the “prestige of the public library”(91).
- Pre-weed/Post WeedAge of collections
- Research partners
- INTERMISSION:What we did“what would Nancy do?”
- Westerns (floor plan graphic) 45% circ increase, didn’t weed except for condition (less than a dozen books) – slat wall expenditureGraphic Novels – zero dollar(confirm) 34% increaseEasy Readers – approx. $70Juvenile Series-Paperbacks – zero dollarJuvenile CDs – zero dollar
- Easy Readers: no weeding done; increased face out display and space for housing the collection with the addition of inexpensive blue display units; this collection traditionally circulates well; experienced a 19% increase in circulation after the addition of the new display units
- Graphic Novels: consolidated YA and general graphic novel collections; moved to a prominent high-traffic location; weeded only for condition; 34% increase in circ
- Juvenile Paperbacks: weeded approximately 1000 titles which were mainly pb/hard duplicates; divided collection into series and standalone pbs; repurposed shelving to house the Juvenile Series paperback collection; interfiled juvenile standalone paperbacks with juvenile hardcover fiction; no circ stats available yet post-change
- Juvenile CDs: repurposed juvenile pb spinners increasing cover display and accessibility; no weeding done; no circ stats available yet post-change
- Adult Paperbacks, general and genre: weeded for condition; changed floor layout of spinners; added signage
- Westerns: moved to a new, more visible area; weeded for condition only approx. a dozen deselected; was a dead collection being recommended for storage; resistance to this as a storage collection presumably wouldn’t circulate at all; 71% increase in circulation April 2011 from April 2010
- Expenditures estimated at a couple of hundred dollars:· Adult paperback signs from Demco· Foamboard to reinforce Demco signs· Some slatwall units for the Western paperbacks· Blue easy reader display unitsBlue display units are available from High Smith for $11 for large size, $6 for small size
- Ebooks: “Libraries are screwed?”Slote method95% in fiction99% in nf
- Modified Slote 95-99% of what is actually used (96% is Slote’s magic number)Constant weed--crew5 hours/year?Problems of going just by circ
- Weed constantly
- Talk about top of shelf display in teensEWorks best at point-of-need
- Weeding is easy, cheap and affects users perceptions of how happening your library is.When you add display & creative reinvention of your available space you have Hjørring Library, Denmark