Two students working in the larger “General Reference” unit of the library have been diligent at typing up lists. Student N. and C. have typed up the a good chunk of the Federal Security agency books and all of the the Federal Trade Commission books. I’ve discarded 177 of the FTC documents. That’s equivalent to [...]
Archive for April, 2007
FS and FTC progress
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
More discard lists
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Volunteer Student M. finished discard list of Health Education and Welfare of 100 volumes. That list was posted today. She began working on a new list from Federal Trade Commission. A big, full chart.
I sent a query out to Admin asking about staging area for these discard books. No word on carts or empty shelving [...]
Map of Docs Shelves Finished!
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today Student Volunteer K. finished the excel map of the documents shelves on the main floor of the library. Each three-feet documents shelf is represented by an excel cell that has been labeled with the beginning of the SuDoc class stem. With this map complete I can now begin to compare the space of documents [...]
Big and Little Volumes
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Volunteer Student M. continued to type discard lists for the WTIC Commerce publications from the 1950s through 1960s. This series is crazy because it has maybe 50-80 separate titles bound into a book about 2-inches thick. It’s a lot of work to discard these books.
I took an easier route. I began typing a list [...]
