Comments on: Annual Review & Reference Dept. Goals http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/29/annual-review-reference-dept-goals/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Sat, 25 May 2013 00:44:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kate http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/29/annual-review-reference-dept-goals/#comment-192 Kate Thu, 31 May 2007 20:03:17 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=127#comment-192 I’m feeling exceedingly unmotivated to write this comment yet a third time, but I got smart, I’m writing it in Word, then pasting over. Hrumphf.

Anyway, two things:
1. I dislike selection also. In a huge consortia, all the big libraries, or the libraries on top of things, or the libraries not waiting til the very end of the fiscal year b/c profs have until nearly then to submit their book requests, purchase all the good books first. Then, in the interest of not having a bazillion copies of certain books to share consortia-wide, I have to hunt for books few libraries have purchased… which means they probably don’t fit the needs of our collection anyway, and it’s quite irritating to hunt.

2. Why interfile ref and nonfic when you can delete? I have recently been given the almighty delete power in order to carry out my neverending massive reference collection weeding project and I am using this power liberally. Who needs 5 million dictionaries anyway? DELETE DELETE DELETE!

Okay, I exaggerate… slightly.

]]> By: Kate http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/29/annual-review-reference-dept-goals/#comment-191 Kate Thu, 31 May 2007 19:48:05 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=127#comment-191 Your math thing is mean.

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