Day 11

Today was a busy but productive day.  The majority of our time was spent working with Titlewise to analyze weaknesses in the collection.  We used the report provided by Follett to determine aged titles as well as circulation statistics for those to be considered for weeding.  My mentor knows her collection and is very careful about weeding.  She wants to keep books that her users still ask for even though they may be many years old.  She showed me how to check Destiny for how many times a book has been checked out in a certain time period, in this case the last ten years.  We actually took the laptop with us to the shelves so that we could look at the books as we went.  By the end of the day, we selected about 100 or so books for weeding.  Her overall collection year came up from 2003 to 2004, which is closer to the goal of 2005.  I learned that weeding is not always the easiest thing to do.  Careful considerations must be made before just pulling a book from the collection.