The easy answer to all this is that any relationship has to communicate
and have a dialog, so the librarian with the user, the librarian with
the supplier., the profile and data supplied to the supplier must be
current and frequently revised, and of course the expertise of the
librarian could be moved to the supplier? However if selection is to
remain with the library, then there must be the most streamlined system
possible to give the librarian less repetitive work to do and more time
to spend on Reader Development?
f
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Subject: RE: Audio Visual Supplier Selection
No issues are not the be all and end all of what a library is about, but
they are an important part of bringing people in to the building, my
experience of supplier select is not good.
Good stock is important and some of us can do that very well, and resent
having that role removed from them by groups and individuals who think
they know better than the people on the front line
Peter Hebdon
Senior Librarian, Fiction & Reader Development
Wallsend Library
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Wallsend
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Frances Hendrix
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20/07/2007 15:47
Are issues the bee all and end all of what a 21st century library is all
about
The competition out there for reading material is quite severe, it is
easy to go else where. How are we going to make libraries the
destination of choice?
Library staff have had the decisions for 150 years, and we are where we
are?
f
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Subject: Re: Audio Visual Supplier Selection
I have followed this thread with interest, and now have some questions:
Some libraries may still have large staffing budgets but others have
already made savings in this area and increased opening hours, so on
what basis are these 'savings' going to be made.
How can someone based somewhere in the country buy not just for 149
library authorities but all their service points, without simply making
us another branch of Borders or Waterstones, you can write as many
profiles as you want it will never replace the knowledge and expertise
of the people on the spot.
Given that we are all trying to raise issues, what evidence that this
centralised buying will increase issues?
Experiments with fiction via 'Branching Out' do not appear conclusive in
this area.
I would suggest that the MLA and others should for once actually let
the library staff, librarians etc decide for themselves how we will
deliver our service to our communities, as many of the ideas come from
people with little or no knowledge of how libraries work and interact
with their communities.
Peter Hebdon
Senior Librarian, Fiction & Reader Development
Wallsend Library
Ferndale Road
Wallsend
NE28 7NB
Tel: 0191 200 6968
Fax: 0191 200 6967
Email: [log in to unmask]
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