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WHAT YOU SHOULD BE SUBJECTING
YOUR TEENS TO:THE NONFICTION SWITCH
Lindsey TomsuHaley Christensen
Keyahna WoodSarah Kreber
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
Statistics
October 2010 - 2011
Teen Fiction Collection
Statistics
1,990 Teen Fiction Books
5,136 Total Fiction Circulation
Statistics
1,523 Individual Books Circulated
467 Individual Books Did Not
Statistics
80% Circulation Rate of the Teen Fiction
Collection Between October 2010 – October
2011
Statistics
October 2010 – 2011
Teen Nonfiction Collection
Statistics
1,910 Teen NF Books
2,065 Total NF Circulation
Statistics
805 Individual Books Circulated
1,105 Individual Books Did Not
Statistics
Of the 1,910 NF books:
1,539 were General NF
371 were Graphic Novels/Manga Series
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%
Statistics
Which meant . . .
Only 42% of the entire NF collection circulated
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
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
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”
“Pancaking”
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)
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
Original Teen NF Area
New Signage
New Organization
New Organization
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.
Results – A Year Later
October 2011 – October 2012
Circulation in the new NF area
Results
1,487 Books in Teen NF Collection
3,339 Total NF Circulation
Results
Of those 1487 books . . .
1,012 circulated
475 did not (this includes 100 brand new books)
Much better than 1,105
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%
Happy Teens
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
Contact
Lindsey Tomsu & Members of the TABTeen CoordinatorLa Vista Public Library9110 Giles RoadLa Vista, NE [email protected]