Friday Focus
Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 . . . vol. 2, no. 16
INSPIRE FUNDING COULD BE CUT!
Making Finding Things Easier
from Deb Lambert, Director of Collection Management
TV Series will have their own collection code and format stickers.
With this change, our public library branches will shelve TV series in a separate run from nonfiction and feature film DVDs and Blu-rays.
- New TV Series will come with “TV Series” format stickers
- New TV series will have spine labels that have “TV” and “BLU TV” as the call number prefix, which will help patrons find just what they need!
- Existing TV series DVDs and Blu-rays already in the collections will get new stickets, but not new spine labels.
Graphic Novels will have their own collection code and genre stickers.
- They will have their own genre sticker, collection code and call number prefix of “GN” for adult and teen, and “jGN” for juvenile.
- Adult and Teen graphic novels will be shelved together in a separate “graphic novels” section. Just so you know, all branches are being encouraged to shelve graphic novels in a separate run from nonfiction books.
- Juvenile graphic novels will be kept separate, in a graphic novels section of juvenile collection.
- Existing graphic novels already in the collection won't get the new spine labels. but they will get the stickers.
From Sarah: We will probably change the collection codes for your graphic novels, as well, but it may be a summer project! I think it would help to break them out of your nonfiction circulation statistics. If any of you would like to use the same graphic novel genre sticker, let me know and I will get you the vendor and price info!
School District Sponsored Collection Debuts
Lawrence Township is purchasing classroom sets of ebooks through us on OverDrive. They did this on purpose so they could share their resources with the rest of the community. You might look at the list – it’s in OverDrive, under Featured Collections, then Sponsored Collections. So far, they have just purchased a few titles for their middle school students, but they plan to grow the collection with time.
One Sitting Books
One Sitting Books are great books to make available for students (or museum staff) who just have a few extra minutes to read something interesting before they move on to the next task. They're also usually beautifully interested, and help build background vocabulary and knowledge.
One Hundred Reads
Wouldn't it be interesting to create YOUR location's One Hundred list - a list that isn't copied off the internet, but created from the interests, values, and mission of your staff and students? If you already have, let me know!
The Homework: Science Experiments page on the IndyPL Kids' Blog includes several science experiment pages with directions, as well as websites, databases, and books for research.
Encyclopedias?
Book Carts?
Tag!
As we add more schools, we're adding more work, but not more workers! Thanks for your help!
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