Collection Maintenance
Required
Readings
Standards
Supplemental
- Bishop 10
Standards
- 4.2A Develops and evaluates policies and procedures that support the mission of the school and address specific needs of the LMP, such as collection development and maintenance, challenged materials, and acceptable use policies
Supplemental
- MAF's commentary on Bishop 10
- Sad stories:
- Dog ate it
- Dropped it in the tub
- Rained on
- Bus ran over
- Little brother colored in it
- House burned down
- Food fell on
- Permanent vandalism (mustaches, clothes, etc. made w/ ink)
- Normal wear and tear:
- page creases (discourage by providing bookmarks)
- spine collapse or shredding; back broken so that middle pages
fall out
- pencil marks (have kids erase)
- dirty (especially dusty) equipment
- lamp replacement
- Teaching kids to take reasonable care of books
- Book repair: A
resource from Brodart
- Equipment maintenance and troubleshooting
- Keep a small toolkit on hand: screwdrivers especially;
duck/duct tape; WD40
- Number one guideline: before you remove a lamp, notice carefully how it's placed
- Keep all manuals filed
- Online help, official or unofficial, is usually available
- Printers, copiers remain a royal
pain - you will spend most of your troubleshooting time on them.
Minimize use as much as possible, because of high cost and high
environmental footprint. Avoid copiers if at all possible.
- All misc. aspects of keeping the collection healthy and happy
- Book "Hospital" management - check item into the hospital so that it doesn't show up as falsely available
- Recognizing the point at which an item can't be saved, or further repair is not cost effective
- Kids won't use a book (probably)
after a certain amount of mutilation and repair
References
- Bishop,
K. (2007). The collection program in
schools: Concepts, practices,
and information scources (4th ed.). Westport, CT: Libraries
Unlimited.
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