Ruth over at Artifact Collectors has posted a great interview with Holly Hibner of ALB, and there is some useful information about the weeding process and collection development in general.  Take a look at it!

 
As a side note, I am absolutely dying over this recent book posted on ALB.  Really??  The most shocking thing is the copyright date of 1991. Ai yi yi.  I’ve seen some pretty awful books myself in my day…this one ranks pretty high.

From OverDrive:

‘Get for Kindle’ for all Penguin eBooks in your catalog has been restored as of this morning. Penguin titles are available for check out by Kindle users and the Kindle format will be available for patrons who are currently on a waiting list for a Penguin title. Upcoming releases remain unavailable.

We apologize for the inconvenience this caused for your library and patrons. At this time, no further information is available. We hope to share more details in the near future.

You’re mad at Amazon.com and your taking it out on us. (I”m not the first person to come up with this theory. I just had nothing to back it up.)Your authors are jumping ship to “self” publish with Amazon. Amazon has a pipeline to its customers that you can’t even dream of. Amazon went out and built an eReader from scratch so that they could sell people your books in yet another format. And you’re going take your titles off of our digital shelves? And blame security issues?

You don’t have to fear libraries, Penguin.You don’t even have to respect us. But if you don’t think that we’re kind of smart and really pretty awesome at organizing stuff, then you’re going to be really, really surprised. Oh, and we’re the PR equivalent of holding a puppy. You really don’t want your picture taken kicking us.

An offshoot of her regular RA for All blog (we’ve crushed on her before, ’cause she’s awesome…), the goal of her horror-specific blog  is to help librarians match horror readers with their next good read.   She’s got an index of Horror Reviews, as well as information about publishers, awards, and other Horror resources.  This month (Oct 2011), her theme has been “31 days of Horror”, and she’s been diligently posting what she’s reading, roundups of horror links, blogging about film and TV, and more.

Boo!

Think of it like an absolutely no stakes War Games. You type in the name of an author and 30 or so other authors that may be more or less like the author you entered fill the screen. Adjacency to the original author indicates a higher degree of similarity. Literature-Map is part of Gnod, “An experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. It’s a self-adapting system, living on this server and ‘talking’ to everyone who comes along.  You might call it a search-engine to find things you don’t know about.” But mostly it’s just fun.

A big question is, what do you do with those weeded books?

Better World Books

•  They’ll pay for pick-up; you can donate the books and designate a charity for the profits to go to, or they will sell and give you $$.

Recycle

• Special county recycling days
• Temporarily rent more recycling bins – fairly inexpensive

Sell

• Friends Groups usually need to take over selling
• Library booksales – ongoing or events
• eBay (volunteers, Friends) – if it’s worth the time

Offer out to others

• DON’T GIVE THEM JUNK
• Local schools
• System email lists
• Nearby libraries

Repair -   Is it worth your time or money?  Book binderies are few and far between.  Can this be replaced?

Finally, realize that some just have to go in the trash, like it or not.  No one has a use for moldy, smelly, damaged books.