Weeding
The 900s shelves are stuffed full! The media specialist here has admitted that (like librarians everywhere) weeding is one of the more difficult tasks for her. She was very excited that I was willing to take on weeding a section, but I made her promise not to get upset if I weeded half the collection, since I'm a weeder by nature. Before I started I reviewed some of the materials she had on weeding; a couple of outlines/descriptions of the CREW and MUSTIE methods and most interesting to me the "Spilled Milk" thoughts behind weeding.
While weeding the 900s in this library, I;ve been keeping in mind age, content, condition, circulation dates, material available in databases, and other materials available on the shelves. While for the most part I didn't have much trouble ruthlessly weeding 900-919, I'm getting into the biographies now, and I find myself hesitating over some books. I've left a couple of 20 plus year old books on the shelf if they: 1) have been circulated in the past 5 years, 2) are written on someone who's been dead way more than 20 years, 3) are in good condition, and 4) contain in-depth information not available elsewhere. I've been so ruthless in weeding up to now that it's hard to walk away from shelves that still have some of these older books on them, but I don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater!
Website
The West Lafayette School Corporation hosts teacher blogs using the blogging software, Wordpress. I've seen Wordpress used before to build excellent, highly dynamic library websites, so I proposed to the media specialist that we update the media center website. In our initial planning sessions, we discussed:
- including book reviews
- a visually appealing site
- including library policies/rules
- providing links to the local public libraries, INSPIRE, etc.
- including links to other blogs
- showing images of new books dynamically through a widget
- including book trailers
- adding a widget with images from the library
- providing seperate pages for the book reviews and trailers
- a quick tutorial on how the media specialist will use and update her blog in the future
- adding some personal information and photos on the Contact Us page
- what additional Resources should be added
Here's a link to the work-in-progress blog, which is really shaping up!
http://blogs.wl.k12.in.us/bentlageb/
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