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Lumsden offers insights about shelving books by genre rumbles on. Personally she is not a fan of finding a book by genre. She finds that if books are shelved by genre, then she always go to the same section. She loves a good rom-com and will continue reading those until there is nothing else left to read. At that point she may look elsewhere or more likely she may just go and ask if there are any more rom-coms, missing out on a whole plethora of wonderful books just because they are not in the rom-com section, whereas serendipity is wonderful. Once someone had read all the books by a particular author, they may look for something else similar, the same genre possibly, almost probably. This is where knowledgeable, well-read library staff come into their own. How good are their persuasive powers.

[Display omitted] •Vertical head movements induced by a retail context changes consumers’ felt power.•Mismatch between felt power and personal sense of power increases indulgent choice.•Power mismatch – indulgent choice link due to increase in feelings of discomfort. This paper advances our understanding of consumer responses to retail product displays by examining the interplay between the vertical shelf position of choice options and consumers’ personal sense of power in determining their preference for indulgent options. Six experiments show that when consumers choose from assortments placed on a low shelf position, requiring them to lower their heads, those higher (vs. lower) in personal power are more likely to choose an indulgent option over its prudent counterpart. In contrast, when choosing from assortments placed on a high shelf position, requiring consumers to raise their heads, those lower (vs. higher) in personal power are more likely to choose an indulgent option. This effect hinges on a mismatch (vs. match) between consumers’ personal sense of power and that triggered by the products’ retail shelf position, increasing affective discomfort and guiding consumers, thus, towards indulgent choices.

From time to time, we all need to clean house, and where better to start than the closets where clutter tends to accumulate, sight unseen? 'the motivation for tackling closets is to discover the entire contents, determine what items are worth keeping and what should be recycled, and then return the items of worth in an orderly way. Liturgical Seasons, Separate Group Collections, New Purchases (helps track annual budget expense), Accompaniment Books, and Other Compilations of Music. Year Acquired (starting with new music), Keywords, Languages, Group Notes, Hymn Tune, and Group/Season/Year. Alphabetization Consistency is key in applying some common-sense rules to alphabetizing your title entries and then shelving in corresponding order.

This article explores how the National Poetry Library has developed its historic collection of vinyl LPs over the course of four years, describing the challenges of balancing the preservation of audio objects with their accessibility and discoverability, and examining the opportunities this unique collection presents in building new audiences.

Time and staffing can be very limited resources for today's Teacher Librarian. Conference presentations and articles often showcase large, inspiring, but often daunting projects. This article will present suggestions for smaller, but still significant, projects in key focus areas such as displays, genrefication/resource access and evidence-based practice that can be achieved in the school library. Though examples are mostly based in the primary school library context, the tips can be implemented in secondary school library projects as well.

This paper discusses the role of mobile applications in enhancing library-related tasks. Mobile technology emerges as a valuable resource for saving time and effort. The study demonstrates how mobile applications can simplify tasks like stock-taking and generating other collection-related statistics within a library. The paper takes a distinctive approach by recording book usage statistics and monitoring staff activities, specifically the re-shelving of books. This method carries significant implications for collection development and the efficient management of library staff. It underscores the potential of mobile technology to enhance library services’ economic and sustainable operation. Notably, the library’s stack area frequently experiences congestion, poor internet connectivity, and insufficient infrastructure for routine operations. Some setbacks, such as inadequate lighting in the stack area, were identified as factors affecting the app’s performance.

PurposeAggressive weeding in academic libraries is becoming more commonplace as colleges seek to create student-centered environments and space is at a premium. For one community college in the Southwest United States, several factors required the library to proactively weed its collection within three years. At the same time, the library sought to maintain the circulation of its physical books.Design/methodology/approachUpdating the library’s collection development policy to include robust selection and weeding criteria allowed the library to embark on a revitalization project to remove thousands of outdated or unused items, resulting in a net loss of nearly 32,000 books.FindingsThe loss of more than half of the general collection had an unforeseen consequence – a 70% increase in circulation statistics during the three-year deselection project. The case study's results highlight the need for continual maintenance of academic library collections.Originality/valueThe case study is original and not published elsewhere.

Am Beispiel des Bonner Standortes von ZB MED – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften, der früheren Zentralbibliothek der Landbauwissenschaft (ZBL) wird dargestellt, wie sich eine Vielzahl von verschiedenen Signaturenarten „historisch entwickelt“.

The Duke University Medical Center Library and Archives is located in the heart of the Duke Medicine campus, surrounded by Duke Hospital, ambulatory clinics, and numerous research facilities. Its location is considered prime real estate, given its adjacency to patient care, research, and educational activities. In 2005, the Duke University Library Space Planning Committee had recommended creating a learning center in the library that would support a variety of educational activities. However, the health system needed to convert the library's top floor into office space to make way for expansion of the hospital and cancer center. The library had only five months to plan the storage and consolidation of its journal and book collections, while working with the facilities design office and architect on the replacement of key user spaces on the top floor. Library staff worked together to develop plans for storing, weeding, and consolidating the collections and provided input into renovation plans for users spaces on its mezzanine level. The library lost 15,238 square feet (29%) of its net assignable square footage and a total of 16,897 (30%) gross square feet. This included 50% of the total space allotted to collections and over 15% of user spaces. The top-floor space now houses offices for Duke Medicine oncology faculty and staff. By storing a large portion of its collection off-site, the library was able to remove more stacks on the remaining stack level and convert them to user spaces, a long-term goal for the library. Additional space on the mezzanine level had to be converted to replace lost study and conference room spaces. While this project did not match the recommended space plans for the library, it underscored the need for the library to think creatively about the future of its facility and to work toward a more cohesive master plan. Adapted from the source document.

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center is the primary hospital for the UCSD School of Medicine. The UCSD Medical Center Library (MCL), a branch of the campus's biomedical library, is located on the medical center campus. In 2007, the medical center administration made a request to MCL for space in its facility to relocate pharmacy administration from the hospital tower. The university librarian brought together a team of library managers to deliberate and develop a proposal, which ultimately accommodated the medical center's request and enhanced some of MCL's public services. Adapted from the source document.