[Evergreen-general] Staff training

[Frasur, Ruth]

We have found exactly the same thing that Terran describes.  Oftentimes, we’ve had larger, more well-funded libraries indicate that they’re afraid the smaller libraries will “clear their shelves” of new materials.  In reality, we’ve found that the smaller libraries contribute a ton because they have retained items that are often weeded at the larger libraries, filling out series and providing access to items that are out of publication.  Age protection is the thing that seems to alleviate the fear.  We have found that three month age protection generally works best except for those few outliers (think Harry Potter, Twilight, Spare…).

Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691

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My suggestion is to put the emphasis on how much it will improve the patron experience by being able to offer them so many more titles than they currently have access to.

We have done resource sharing in Georgia since the beginning of PINES and one of the things that we have found is that oftentimes the less well-funded libraries that can't afford all of the new books end up being really valuable for holds because they may have some of the older titles that other branches have weeded.

Also, if you are using age protection, then staff can be sure that their local patrons are still getting the brand new items first.


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On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 2:43 PM Millissa Macomber via Evergreen-general <evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org>> wrote:
For anyone who does staff training - Our system is in the process of beginning to share resources between libraries. I have one library with a large number of staff members who are reluctant and unhappy about the changes. Any suggestion on how to alleviate the fears surrounding sharing resources? I  have a staff training planned for November so I would love some ideas.


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