Tech Svcs crew watching our videos, originally uploaded by kiltedlibrarian.This morning the Technical Services department met to review the new CPI collection maintenance practices. TSFD watched all of the training videos which are available on the intranet for staff to review either individually, or at a staff meeting.
Collection Development created the videos so that staff could receive a consistent message about the new procedures. CPI team members, Collection Development librarians, and District Managers are attending staff meetings througout the system to review the new practices and answer questions. The collection maintenance videos are the first training videos to be created within Sno-Isle and then posted on the intranet.
The CPI team felt that the new practices and procedures for handling materials in branches would be more effectively implemented if there was a body of new terms that more closely described each step in the process. Previous to the CPI team’s recommendations, nearly all steps in the process were described under the umbrella term, weeding. This lead to practices in the branches that were often different from library to library in regards to weeding.
Under the new practices the term weeding has been replaced by the new term collection maintenance. New terminology has also been added to more closely distinguish between those items that should be removed from the collection and those that are of questionable condition and a determination is needed by a librarian about whether to mend, reallocate or remove the item. Purge is now used to describe those items that ought to be removed from the collection due to poor condition such as water damage. Review is now used to describe items needing further determination by a collection development librarian.
Because Collection Development was taking the department to the movies, we offered concessions–popcorn, soda, and of course junior mints! Afterwards, Brenda happily pitched in with cleaning up the popcorn.
