Laura Given wrote:
> My question is...
> Do you keep a record of the books you weed? Why or why not? In what
> form - just numbers or actual book information?
>
> On the same topic...
> I use a Follett system (which I am currently learning). My one idea is
> to create a patron named "Weeded", check out all the weeded books to
> that patron, print out the list to save, and then delete the records.
Our Winnebago system has us set up specific "material types" for each
part of the collection. For instance, type #2 might be Fiction while
type 63 might be Books lost last year. Perhaps your system will allow
you to do something similar.
We have a material type for books weeded this year in addition to the
usual lost and missing types. When we discard a book or av material we
scan the barcode at the circulation station and choose the menu item
that let's us change the material type to the "weeded" one.
At the end of the year the total number of weeded books shows on my end
of the year report printout. And I print a specific report of just those
weeded books (in order by call number so I can tell which sections
received the most "cleaning" that year since I rarely get to do it all
at once). I put that report in with the rest of this year's e-o-y
reports that I then summarize in a single page report to my principal.
Once all the reports are run it is a simple matter to then tell the
system to delete all items that are material type ##.
I don't check them out to a "weeded patron" because then you have to
check them in again before you can delete the records, which does make
extra work for you.
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26175 FM 2090 Splendora, TX 77372
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