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FROM: "Karen Migaldi" <kmigaldi@nsls.info>
REC'D: 5/21/02, 3:19 PM
We're about to begin weeding our audiobook collection and are wondering if
someone else has undertaken this project in their library. What guidelines
have other libraries used? I've read the discussion about weeding the print
collection, but I'm wondering if all of those criteria apply to the sound
format.Thanks for your help,
Karen Migaldi
Crystal Lake Public Library
Crystal Lake, IL 60014
FROM: Viccy Kemp <Viccy.Kemp@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 5/21/02, 3:29 PM
The major criteria in our library is currency of information, usage stats
and condition. A lot of the collection is self-weeding, since most of the
fiction dies over the course of time. The non-fiction is more a matter of
currency, use and condition.
We have just begun weeding audio to any degree and currency and age seem to
be the primary reasons. I do insist that we keep local authors and authors
such as Drucker, Peters and Hopkins.
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Migaldi [mailto:kmigaldi@nsls.info]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:11 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Weeding audiobooks
We're about to begin weeding our audiobook collection and are wondering if
someone else has undertaken this project in their library. What guidelines
have other libraries used? I've read the discussion about weeding the print
collection, but I'm wondering if all of those criteria apply to the sound
format.
Thanks for your help,
Karen Migaldi
Crystal Lake Public Library
Crystal Lake, IL 60014
FROM: <cheuer@itol.com>
REC'D: 5/21/02, 4:13 PM
My collection does a great job of weeding itself. We get 5 - 10 a week that have broken cassettes, lost cassettes, and what we call "magnet damage." That's when the circulation dept ges audio tapes too close to the desensitizer for the books. Or when a well meaning customer reaches over the barrier at the end of the desk to return their audio tapes on top of a desensitizer. When I get a damaged tape I first check circ. if its gone out alot, I feel I have gotten my money's worth and I don't replace unles it is an extremely popular author. Also if there are other holdings in the system I will not replace (we have 8 branches). I am always amazed at circ records for audiotapes , 50, 60, 70, a 100 times! No wonder they fall apart. Our tapes go out for a month but our turnover is much quicker so my circs are high. Condition and circulation are my prime guides and for nonfiction - currency, popularity. For instance the biography of Clinton's mother went out a lot in his first term!
, greatly declined in his second term and now I have withdrawn it.Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Migaldi [mailto:kmigaldi@nsls.info]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:11 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Weeding audiobooks
>
>
> We're about to begin weeding our audiobook collection and are wondering if
> someone else has undertaken this project in their library. What guidelines
> have other libraries used? I've read the discussion about weeding the print
> collection, but I'm wondering if all of those criteria apply to the sound
> format.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Karen Migaldi
> Crystal Lake Public Library
> Crystal Lake, IL 60014
>
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FROM: "Dr. Joni Richards Bodart" <jonirb@earthlink.net>
REC'D: 5/21/02, 4:24 PM
FROM: Mona Stevenson <stevensonm@wtcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 5/22/02, 9:50 AM
Although our general collection is on a five year weeding cycle, I do the
audiobooks more frequently, due to space limitations. Circulation is my
primary criterion, since we just don't have the space to tolerate more than
a few shelf-sitters. I do make allowances for low circ. on holiday titles
and some titles that were added to "balance" the collection (fiction with
gay, Hispanic and Jewish interest haven't gone very well here, but we have a
representative sampling.) Our collection is predominantly fiction, with
nonfiction focused on certain popular topics - biography, self help,
bestsellers. Condition is evaluated upon each return, so I seldom need to
withdraw for that reason. Once or twice a year I print a list of low-circ.
items to consider for withdrawal. Once every year or two I evaluate the
entire collection on an item by item basis, looking for gaps in series or
genres and discarding slow movers. The low circ threshold for audio is
higher than for print, since we have less shelf space for audio (though we
just weeded the Reference Collection by about 35 shelves to make more room
for audio.) I also discard abridged versions once the unabridged has
arrived. (Our branches and bookmobile focus on abridged for space reasons,
but Main users seems to prefer the unabridged.)Mona Stevenson
Assistant Director
Warren-Trumbull Co. Public Library
Warren, OH 44483
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