A couple notes about libraries, books, and collections:
Of the nine MELSA libraries (seven metro county systems plus Minneapolis and
St. Paul), only Minneapolis has a collection policy that includes developing
a historical collection (hence the 3 million volumes you always hear about).
The other eight systems are more typical in that they turn over most of
their collections in three years. Most of the books they buy are removed
from the collection before they are hardly broken in.
Books are hard to get rid of, even giving them away can be difficult. They
are heavy and take up a lot of space. it is expensive to store them and
transport them. It is even more expensive to organize them into a useful
collection. I know this from my experience working in libraries as well as
my own frustrations trying to get someone to accept my growing collection of
books. (An aside: If anyone knows an organization that is willing to
accept several hundred brand new children's books, catalog them, and make
them available to its constituents, please let me know. I've been looking
unsuccessfully for years.)
Librarians are not book collectors. What is valuable to a collector may not
be valuable to a librarian. I'ts unfortunate there isn't an efficient
mechanism to get the interesting books that a library no longer needs into
the hands of someone who will appreciate them, but I have yet to see
anything better than the library book sale (which I regulary troll for my
own idiosyncratic collection). Anyone have any ideas?
Eric Hinsdale
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www.erichinsdale.com
From: "Dorie Rae Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Christy Nicklas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mpls] RE: Minneapolis Public Library
CaughtThrowingBooksinDumpster
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:33:41 -0500
So those of us who complained... need to volunteer more time, give more
money??
Perhaps...but I really don't think so...what we need to do is change
policy...a policy that is not set by
the Minneapolis Public Library. Public opinion can do just that and create
a positive solution instead
of foible banter from and for the unknown!
Dorie Rae Gallagher
Nokomis
Christy writes.... Far
better to smear the MPL which already has enough problems, than to do
investigative reporting.
I'd also wonder how many people who are shocked - shocked! - to learn that
a library doesn't keep or find a happy home for every book ever on their
shelves, have been to the library bookstore recently. If it bothers you
enough to complain about it, why not
1) Buy the books yourself, right now, this weekend
2) Volunteer your time to coordinate a donation effort to the cause of
your
choice.
On 5/26/05, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, you saw something on TV that got you excited, huh?
Well DUH
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