Designing Collection Experiences: Selection
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Workshop presented October 29, 2013 in Waterloo, Iowa. Strategic public library selection, with a focus on refreshing the existing collection, streaming mainstream titles, and making careful decisions to concentrate the collection toward reader needs and demand. Fifth session in the Designing Collection Experiences series: http://bitly.com/18g71kR.
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- 1. Designing Collection Experiences: 5. Selection Roy Kenagy rjkenagy@netins.net www.whatwouldranganathando.org October 29, 2013 Waterloo Public Library
- 2. What will selectors do? Other than read reviews?
- 3. Traditional Selection | Criteria What selectors do How selectors decide
- 4. Cedar Rapids Public Library, a long time ago.
- 5. “In the hard-hitting works of Harold Robbins, even the sacred isn't sacred.” Sony Reader Store
- 6. Free Library of Philadelphia, home of the original Greenaway Plan (1958).
- 7. Define Your Objective In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Sun Tzu, Chapter 2
- 8. The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities. R. David Lankes
- 9. “The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.” The Stranger (Sam Elliott) in The Big Lebowski
- 10. Conversation abides. The mission of librarians is to help readers create transformative meaning in their lives and in the lives of others.
- 11. Transformative meaning… is pretty much by definition narrative.
- 12. Narrative transformation matrix Narration True crime The Pentateuch Martha Stewart cookbooks? Celebrity diets Mode Exemplar Pregnancy & childbirth manuals Deck-building manuals Travel guides Exposition Theory Practice Affordance Praxis
- 13. Anticipation Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. Sun Tzu, Chapter 4
- 14. The half-life of texts Publishing | Publicity | Reviewing Word of Mouth
- 16. Pre-duplicate The Harold Robbins syndrome: Why you should avoid relying on the volume of holds when you add duplicates.
- 17. Selection / Acquisition / Cataloging turn-around Measure: Release time to shelf.
- 18. Reader requests Purchase requests | Holds
- 21. Placing a Bet Popularity | Quality
- 22. Heterogeneous Granularity We need all the clues we can get.
- 23. What is the best indicator of future use of a library text?
- 24. Where can we find the best evidence for the quality of a text?
- 25. Place your first bets on the titles that have a track record. Renewals
- 26. Renewal Replacement | New editions | Duplication
- 27. Exploiting the Terrain We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporizing ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy. Sun Tzu, Chapter 10
- 28. Professional Resources Reviews | Databases | Bibliographies
- 29. Booklist Online Pregnancy and Childbirth titles 11 total 2010 – 6 2011 – 3 2012 – 2
- 30. Jobbers Ingram | Baker and Taylor | Brodart Etc.
- 31. Retailers Amazon | Barnes & Noble Half-Price Books | etc.
- 33. Benchmark Libraries • • • • • • • Hennepin County (Minneapolis suburbs) Allen County (Fort Wayne) Skokie (Chicago suburb) Multnomah County (Portland) County of Los Angeles Queens Iowa City
- 34. Benchmark library holdings: Pregnancy and Childbirth Benchmark Library Hennepin County IUPLA [WorldCat] Allen County Skokie Multnomah County County of Los Angeles Queens Iowa City Mean 2012 35 27 24 29 18 16 17 17 23 Publication Date 2011 2010 29 26 24 16 25 15 21 11 24 17 26 16 18 13 13 3 23 15 Mean 30 22 21 20 20 19 16 11
- 35. Increase in Number of Titles by Collection Scope 15 Title Increase multiple High 12 Average 9 Low 6 3 0 Discontent, Sadness, etc… Happiness Serenity Eternal Joy The Cat's Pajamas Collection Level Collection Scope Title increase multiple Low Average High Happiness 1 1 1 Serenity 2 2.5 3 Eternal Joy 4 5 6 The Cat’s Pajamas 8 10 12
- 36. 42 copies; 2008 31 copies; 2009 38 copies; 2009 27 copies; 2011 34 copies; 2009 26 copies; 2013
- 38. How many titles will you add annually?
- 40. Renewal Weeding | Replacement | Duplication
- 42. Collecting Artifacts The resource sets librarians traditionally have “selected” from Not to scale
- 43. Concentration Keeping your balance on the cutting edge.
Editor's Notes
- Harold Robbins
- $300 signed first edition
- Emerson Greenaway, director at the time.
- Strategic objective
- Pent uh tuhk
- Hennepin County Library has 41 branchesWhat to expect when you’re expecting – 42 copies; 2008The Midwife – 38 copies; 2009You having a baby - 34 copies; 2009What to expect before you’re expecting – 31 copies; 2009Your pregnancy week by week – 27 copies; 2011Healthy Pregnancy Book - 26 copies; 2013