Table 1: Collection Maintenance & Marketing Hosts: Amanda Lanza & Alex Wolf

High School

Table 1: Collection Maintenance & MarketingHosts: Amanda Lanza & Alex Wolf

How have you engaged inContinuousReview, Evaluation and Weeding(CREW) to maintain the quality of your collection?
How have you marketed books & eBooks topromotetheir use by students and teachers?
How do you use circulation data for strategic marketing, weeding and selection?

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Rotation 2 /

eBooks- personal contact and recommendation
Teacher link on a tile
Frames to advertise eBooks
Infusing eBook options on shelf
Weed during genrefication- not checked out, worn
Started with bigger NF sections
Created a plan for the year- Break Fiction into sections and use NF Dewey- put on a chart
eBook marketing- NO OVERDUES!
Run a spot on the morning announcements to fill out a request form (print or online) for a book
Create a form for student recommendations

Rotation 3 /

Genrefication of Fiction Section- weeded during the process
Updating age of collection- pull all books 2000 or older, LMS would review for use- projects and data from Destiny, make final selections
Make a list of books that were weeded to update
Aggressively weed Reference
Kids will use eBooks if LMS recommends
NF eBooks sell more than fiction
Purchases ABC Cleo for History
Emotional response to weeding from classroom teachers
Book trailers for eBooks- put on announcements

Rotation 4 /

Bulletin board with QR codes to eBooks from Destiny and Public Library- QR code to OverDrive
LMS to student recommendation
Weeding- large purchase 17 years ago and now it needs to be weeded
Book look, age, student input, multiple copies of the same title
Scared to weed
Removing shelves once books are weeded
Look at state standards
Print picture of eBook and put on the shelf
NF and reference works the best- new science curriculum- multi-user ebooks
eBooks in resource list
Parents would like students to interact with physical books

Middle School

Table 1: Collection Maintenance & MarketingHosts: Amanda Lanza & Alex Wolf

How have you engaged inContinuousReview, Evaluation and Weeding(CREW) to maintain the quality of your collection?
How have you marketed books & eBooks topromotetheir use by students and teachers?
How do you use circulation data for strategic marketing, weeding and selection?

Session1 /

Weeding a replacing 900 section- country books, remove dated titles and replace with newer titles
Teacher requests on topics- weeded what was currently available and added new titles
TitleWise analysis- gutted 300s and 600s- ordered some new titles based on data about checkout in the past 10 years
Weed multiple copies of the same title in Non-fiction = average age of collection to be 5 years newer & face out displays on shelves
Focus resources on getting new materials and connected to curriculum
Teacher newsletter- directions to link to eBooks
Poster- eBooks
Displays-
Worked with department chairs to order specific titles to support curriculum
Split NF into the core 4 and market directly to content areas- SS, Science, Math, ELA
Interfile marketing for eBooks on the shelf
Work with students to download books on their device

Session 2 /

Lots of weeding reference section (1500-1800), fiction- not circulated in the past 10 years- asked why?
Monthly genre display- September is a good month for …
Weed as shelving books or as items come back
Action plan- co-created with Kelly
No new books without taking one away
eBook SLO Use- surveyed 6th graders about eBooks, then used the data to create SLO

Session 3 /

Prepping for a move- weed prior to moving into a new location- Go through each section- condition, copyright, Destiny and TitleWise reports
Previously scared to weed- TitleWave guidelines, yellowing, pictures outdated or too childish in books,
Pressure from other LMS to weed- dated titles, newer content available online, met with department chairs to discuss changes in curriculum
Moved reference books which allowed NF to flow- students now notice books they didn’t previously
Suggested weeding schedule
Use open space to market NF
Devices have impacted checkout- show how to checkout, how to download app
Provide list to students that connect to current studies

Session 4 /

Make fiction the first thing students see when they walk in the door
Touch everything- helps to identify what needs to be
Weeded state and country books heavily- push students and teachers towards databases
Weeding = space to do more with and makes the library more visual and students browse more
Book store model has impacted book checkout
Genrefication has supported student independence
Shelf markers to advertise ebooks on the shelf