Protect the school yearbooks. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Elissa Scalise Powell via < [email protected]> wrote: > Connie, > I hear you when you say that you don't want to purge until you need the > space. However since the committee is in the mode now, it might be good to > evaluate items that have already been digitized or are available at a > nearby > library or archive and remove those. This also means that when you do want > to take in a collection the committee doesn't have to go into "panic mode" > to purge at that time to make space. Haste is how things do get pitched > without thought. Bravo on trying to get the thoughts down on paper as to > the > limits and conditions of the comings and goings of the collection. > > Best wishes, > Elissa > > Elissa Scalise Powell, CG , CGL > www.PowellGenealogy.com > www.GRIPitt.org 28 June-3 July 2015 and 19-24 July 2015 in Pittsburgh, PA > CG, Certified Genealogist, CGL, and Certified Genealogical Lecturer are > service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under > license by board certificants after periodic evaluations. The board name is > a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Connie Sheets via > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 1:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TGF] Projecting Library Shelf Space Needs > > I am a > relatively new board member for a non-profit organization that has > developed > a large, private genealogical library operated entirely by volunteers. Most > of the volunteers are not librarians or archivists, and the genealogical > expertise of the Board and library volunteers varies. For many years, the > person primarily responsible for the library made every effort to make > space > for most materials that came her way. She has retired and we have come to > the point where available space does not allow us to continue on that > course. On that we all agree. Where we disagree is in the specifics of what > constitutes a valuable genealogical resource that needs to continue to be > made available, and what we need to find another home for. I may be > posting > later about one or two specific types of resources, but this is a more > basic > question. > > I am being told it > is impossible to project, even in a general "guesstimate" way, the amount > of > linear shelf space we will need each year for new acquisitions because we > cannot project the books, etc. that will be donated. We also have a > limited > purchasing program. > > We are in > the process of developing written criteria for what we will accept as > donations, what we will deaccession, etc. but I'm feeling like a voice in > the wilderness advocating that those criteria need to be developed before > the "decluttering" proceeds further. To my untrained eye, we have > sufficient shelf space for a year or two at least. > > Surely, > others deal with this issue all the time and have developed some method > for figuring it out mathematically? Am I being unreasonable to suggest > that it does not make sense to eliminate all school yearbooks and a > significant portion of our periodical collection, how-to books, etc. > without first having some objective idea of when we will actually need the > shelf space? > > > Connie Sheets > Phoenix > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >