Weed before floating

Thanks to Cathy Greulich, the weeding reports for the item types that will begin to float are now in your branch statistics folder.

These item types are: A & J audio books, Large Print, Reading List, non-express DVDs, videos.

To access and print these reports, go to Outlook, then to Public Folders, then to All Public Folders, then to LIB, then to Branch Statistics, then to your branch’s folder.

These reports are organized by item type and are grouped into Adult and Juvenile collection reports.

The reports only include items added in 2006 and before, for which the last activity date was 2006 or before.

These items should be weeded from your collection unless you have a good reason to keep them.

If you want to keep them, get someone to check them out.*

The floating item types will suddenly seem to grow in numbers on your shelves, since these items will no longer go in-transit (and sit in tubs).

Cathy Greulich will provide a report this week on the percentages of each of these item types that are currently in-transit.

If your shelves are 95% full and 10% of the items for the system overall are in transit, you will want to weed vigorously. Weeding items from these lists will make room for new items and will reinvigorate your collection.

Some of the items that appear on your report may be missing. Please just note these for yourself. You do not have to mark these missing.

*Everything that fits our profile for these reports (items added in 2006 or before and no checkouts since 2006) will be deleted from the database in three months.