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Conservative Weeding Isn’t Crazy: The Almost Dead Experiment by Matt Smith, Kalamazoo Public Library

  What’s a rational weeding philosophy? When is a book really dead? 6 months? 2 years? 4 years? More importantly: how do we know? Progressive, cool libraries stick to a 180 … Continued

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Marketing in Public Libraries

When budgets are tight and staff time is already stretched between collection maintenance tasks and serving patrons, a marketing plan can be regarded as “nice to have” rather than an … Continued

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Using a Methodology

  WHAT IS A METHODOLOGY? A methodology can be defined as a set of guidelines or “methods” that can be applied to a certain practice to achieve a defined goal. … Continued

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collectionHQ UK Forums

  Our Marketing Manager, Fiona Syme, shares her experience of our recent collectionHQ Forums in London and Manchester. “After months of preparation, it was great to see the first events from … Continued

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How to Benchmark

What is Benchmarking? By definition, Benchmarking is: “A measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs, strategies, etc., and their comparison with standard measurements, or similar measurements of its peers.”* More … Continued