Choices... choices... that's what it's all about these days. Our initial decision was to reorder the books we'd ordered over the summer - seemed a "duh" since we knew they were wanted. But what next? Luckily, the catalog server was in another building and so we can retrieve circ. data from the past two years… Continue reading Up from the ashes (part four)
Category: Fire!
Up from the ashes (part six)
I'm almost done sending reports to our insurance company regarding the items lost in the fire - it's a great reminder to me (and my staff) that we need to be far better in our cataloging habits. What do I mean by that? Prices are critical: too many (almost 2/3) of the items did not… Continue reading Up from the ashes (part six)
Up from the ashes (part five)
I'm pondering a much larger post on the whole Cult of 2.0, but for the moment I'm involved with creating a Big Book Order.MPOW has two libraries: this is new as of this year, and prior to September, we had one K-12 library. When the fire happened, all the K-4 collection was actually stored in… Continue reading Up from the ashes (part five)
Up from the ashes (part three)
A 100-year-old library burns down and nothing remains (which seems to have eluded many people volunteering to help restock the shelves: we have no shelves -- we don't even have a roof! -- so where are we supposed to put the new books?). The "to do" list is immediately overwhelming:Find out what the replacement value… Continue reading Up from the ashes (part three)