NEW Large Print has MOVED!

We are fast running out of room on the shelves in Large Print and Non-Fiction, so to loosen things up a bit to accommodate for growth, the NEW LARGE PRINT is now located on the NEW shelves across from circ. I will post this for volunteers, but I am sure they will need to be told in person until they get used to it.

This leads me to....

Over the next few weeks, Tristan and I will be working to weed non-fiction and then shift the shelving in that area. Right now, the shelves are a mess, we are running out of room, and weeding is desperately needed. After we get that done, I plan to hold a mandatory training session (or sessions) for volunteers so that we can hopefully improve the shelving. Things have changed locations in the past year, and I think volunteers need a refresher.

YA Shelving

Tristan, the volunteer from Heaven, has been working his fingers to the bone fixing all of the cataloging and shelving errors in YA fiction, and moving YA non-fiction.

Please make your shelving volunteers aware of the following:

YA non-fiction will now be shelved (interfiled) in Adult Non-Fiction. YA non-fiction books will be spine-labeled with the Dewey number, and the book will also have the RED YA label on it. Please note that this YA sticker is for the PATRONS, and not the shelvers! People who shelve should be shelving by the spine label, and NOT the stickers.

YA fiction has all been correctly labeled (no more "jfic"!) and correctly located and iTyped in Millenium. YA fiction books will no longer be labeled with a red YA sticker, so again, shelvers will need to pay attention to the spine labels and not the stickers. YA spines will read YA FIC XXX or YA XXX (due to yet another BT error, that I may nor bother to correct).

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!

NEW Book LOCATION Codes

From now on, new books will be cataloged with a location code of NEW, so that we can locate them more easily when pulling the list and re-shelving.

Juv--NEW - dpjn
Young Adult--NEW - dpyan
NEW -- dpn (this basically covers everything that goes on the new shelves across from circ)

I don't think we have the time to pull the current new books and change the location codes (but if I find myself with nothing better to do one day, I just might do that), but we should get in the habit of having our volunteers who move the NEW books onto the general collection shelves scan each book and change the location code as necessary (taking it out of new and putting it in it's proper category).

We may need to have a bit of training in that.... If so, let me know, and I will put something together for sometime in September.