System Meeting, August 17, 2012

Birds of a Feather

• Evergreen 2.2.1 last minute looks with Lindsay Stratton

Selection Lists

Announcement Links

• ALA Banned Books Week
• Movie Licensing USA Contract Renewal
• People Counters
  • Williamson low-cost solution c $150 plug-in
  • ALL-TAG demo unit c $300, battery
• Agusut 29 Construction Grant deadline for submission to PLS
• August 22! ConstructionNeeds updates for DLD
• SAVE THE DATE: September 28 Early Literacy Skills Workshop (based on ECRR)
• Evergreen Upgrade

Resource Sharing

• Brodart Bibz Online Selection and Ordering collection development service

Program

Best Practices in Collection Development Panel Discussion

Panelists Pat Evans, Nancy Burns, Cheryl Gravelle, Diana Thorn & Patricia Baynes will offer insight and address questions such as

1. How often do you place orders for books, videos,
2. What magazine jobber do you use and what do you like, not like about it
3. If you don’t use a magazine jobber, how do you handle your magazines & how many do you subscribe to
4. Where do you order most of your books from and why
5. Where do you order most of your videos from and why
6. Where do you order most of your music from and why
7. Where do you get most of your videogames and why
8. What do you look for in a good jobber relationship
9. What are your alternative sources for materials
10. What kinds of things do you have in your reference collection and how often do you update them
11. What are your sources for finding out about new adult books
12. What are your sources for finding out about new children’s books
13. What are your sources for finding out about new teen books
14. Do you or the board decide on your materials budget
15. Do you divide up your materials budget by format, age, time of the year…
16. How do you decide how to divide up your materials budget
17. Do you track your spending with relation to your materials budget
18. How do you track your spending with relation to your materials budget
19. How do you handle donations
20. What Evergreen reports do you use to help you with collection development
21. How do you use the Evergreen reports
22. What is your biggest time-saver
23. What are your best practices that save you time and or money

Chris Finger & Betsy Morris will demo alternative collection development methods, as time allows!

Post system meeting:

• Central Library Advisory Committee meeting

System Meeting Documentation

• Agenda - August 17, 2012 System Meeting

• Summary - August 17, 2012 System Meeting
• Betsy's 6 Principles

Link to previous meeting

June 15, 2012 System Meeting