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May. 11th, 2010 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Work is depressing. I've been asked to come up with a plan for reducing the library square footage by half, together with an impact statement about what we lose if we follow through. This place is my baby, and I look around and try to identify 1/2 of the collection (at least in linear shelf space terms) to throw away. Would you throw away half your family? Would your choices change if you knew you were going to be second-guessed by Uber-Boss, but Uber hasn't responded to your memo requesting input?
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Date: 2010-05-11 01:42 pm (UTC)I suppose the best place to start would be to see if you can identify areas of redundancy -- so if you've got material in one book that's covered adequately in another (or in parts of several others) then you could get rid of that. Then there's anything that can easily be found on the 'net -- especially government statistics and stuff like that which gets updated regularly.
I'll keep my cow-orkers and the VP of Doom thanks, because most of the time none of them bother me. (But when they do... Oy!)
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Date: 2010-05-11 01:58 pm (UTC)The next target is periodicals on general business and international trade, which were particularly of interest to Former Uber, who has retired.
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Date: 2010-05-11 01:57 pm (UTC)Play with shelving and aisle widths?
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Date: 2010-05-11 02:33 pm (UTC)Could you Imagine Liam trying to sell off books by the ton-load?
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Date: 2010-05-11 02:08 pm (UTC)Do you keep records of people checking out books? If you could show that there's a long tail, you could use that to make the case for diversity.
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Date: 2010-05-11 02:10 pm (UTC)The ideas about digital copies of things are great, too, and I like that you have some immediate low-hanging fruit to target.
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:58 pm (UTC)Sure.
More than half, actually.
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Date: 2010-05-11 04:31 pm (UTC)"I wish I owned half that dog." Why? "I'd kill my half."
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Date: 2010-05-11 09:27 pm (UTC)http://chapters.nss.org/a/lists/USA/ChapList_MA.shtml
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