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There has been a lot of debate recently over weeding out the Dewey Decimal System in exchange for a more patron- and browsing-friendly Subject Classification System. Can this really work? What are the pros and cons of such a dramatic change? Join us to discover how the Teen Advisory Board of the La Vista Public Library implemented such a change in their teen department. This session will be presented by Lindsey Tomsu, the YA librarian, and Sarah Kreber, a member of the La Vista Public Library Teen Advisory Board, who played a huge part in making this project successful.
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WHAT YOU SHOULD BE SUBJECTING YOUR TEENS TO: THE NONFICTION SWITCH Lindsey Tomsu Haley Christensen Keyahna Wood Sarah Kreber
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Page 1: NCompass Live: What You Should Be 'Subjecting' Your Teens To: The Nonfiction Switch

WHAT YOU SHOULD BE SUBJECTING

YOUR TEENS TO:THE NONFICTION SWITCH

Lindsey TomsuHaley Christensen

Keyahna WoodSarah Kreber

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Background

In the beginning . . . weeding in 2009 and 2010

November 2010 – TAB created Weeding in 2010 - What teens said

about NF October 2011 – Stats dismal

What do I weed when nothing is going out? November 2011 – Took the stats to

TAB

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Statistics

October 2010 - 2011

Teen Fiction Collection

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Statistics

1,990 Teen Fiction Books

5,136 Total Fiction Circulation

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Statistics

1,523 Individual Books Circulated

 467 Individual Books Did Not

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Statistics

80% Circulation Rate of the Teen Fiction

Collection Between October 2010 – October

2011

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Statistics

October 2010 – 2011

Teen Nonfiction Collection

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Statistics

1,910 Teen NF Books 

2,065 Total NF Circulation

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Statistics

805 Individual Books Circulated

 1,105 Individual Books Did Not

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Statistics

Of the 1,910 NF books:

1,539 were General NF

371 were Graphic Novels/Manga Series

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StatisticsOf the 371 GNM, 336 of these books

circulated accounting for 1,376 of the NF circ total (70%)

Of the 1,539 other NF books, 469 of these circulated accounting for 689

of the NF circ total (30%)

With 336 of the 371 GNM collection moving, the total circ of just that

small part of the collection was 90%

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Statistics

Which meant . . .

Only 42% of the entire NF collection circulated

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TAB’s Possible Soultions

Heavily weed the collection getting rid of “dead” books (which would have been more than 1,000 books)

Heavily weed the NF and be more high-interest

Make the NF area GNM only and move all other books to children/adult collections

Move from Dewey to Subject Classification

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How TAB Helped

Weeding low-interest books Meeting with vendors and looking at

catalogs for new high-interest books Developing a subject classification system Categorizing the remaining books Making new signage Weeding the old books Shifting the collection Physically changing the labels Checking out books under the new system Continued maintenance

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New Subject Classifications

Graphic Novels and Manga moved from 741.5 to a prominent spot at the beginning of the teen nonfiction area.

Given a whole new category in the catalog: GNM

To save space and make the area more interesting to the eye, large series were “pancaked”

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“Pancaking”

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New Subject Classifications ART (Art)

BAB (Babysitting) COO (Cooking) CRA (Crafts) DIS (Diseases & Disorders) EDU / FIN (Education & Finance) FIL / MUS (Animation/Film/Music) GAM / TEC (Gaming & Technology) GEO (Geography) GOV (Government) HEA / BEA / FAS (Health, Beauty & Fashion) HIS (History) HOL (Holocaust) MYT / PAR (Mythology & Paranormal) POP (Pop Culture) REA (Real Life Topics) REL (Relationships) SOC (Social Science) SPO (Sports) STA (States) WRI / LIT / LAN (Writing, Literature & Language)

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New Subject Classifications

SCI = Science Broken into 10 subdivisions

SCI-AST = Astronomy SCI-BOT = Botany SCI-CHE = Chemistry SCI-EAR = Earth Science SCI-ENV = Environmental Science SCI-GEO = Geology SCI-HUM = Human Anatomy SCI-LIF = Life Sciences SCI=PHY = Physics SCI-ZOO = Zoology

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Original Teen NF Area

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New Signage

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New Organization

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New Organization

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Results

The switch was completed during Christmas vacation in December 2011.

In just one month nearly 300 books (nearly 50% of the previous year’s whole circulation number for non-GNM NF books) went out.

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Results – A Year Later

October 2011 – October 2012

Circulation in the new NF area

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Results

1,487 Books in Teen NF Collection

3,339 Total NF Circulation

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Results

Of those 1487 books . . .

1,012 circulated

475 did not (this includes 100 brand new books)

Much better than 1,105

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Results

Total Circulation of the Teen NF Collection:

2010 – 2011 = 40%2011 – 2012 = 70%

Switching to subject weeded out the books gathering dust and made a

more high-interest collection ultimately increasing circulation 30%

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Happy Teens

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Discussion

Potential Topics: Why was the collection suffering Why we went with subject classification How we made the system work How other staff members and patrons

felt How the teens felt Open Q&A panel with TAB members

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Contact

Lindsey Tomsu & Members of the TABTeen CoordinatorLa Vista Public Library9110 Giles RoadLa Vista, NE [email protected]


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