JKM Library: LIBRARY TECHNICAL SERVICES: MicroCuts

	: Spring/Summer 2024 Hours

Individual Weeding / De-selection

MicrocutsChart

Internal Value

External Value:

V-1 Immediate Need
V-2 Somewhat Currrently Relevant
V-3 8-year relevance swing (4 past, 4 future)
V-4 Confirmed antiquarian value

Objective/Policy
- Discard books on one-by-one basis
Procedure
- As book is deemed in need of repair- if it has zero checkouts and/or little value or no use to curriculum - it can be considrered for discard
- for books discovered via:
  - Tech Services (Relabeling Project)
    - Damaged/ faded label, barcode, text
    - Uncracked book (10+ years old)
  - Circ Desk (Student Review)
    - Damaged/ faded label, barcode, text
    - Shelf Reading: not in system
Process
- add/move to Tech Svs 013 MC shelves
- Place book in appropriate Tech Services review queue to add/move to Tech Svs 013 MC shelves
  - Add record to MC3
    - Check si dignus
      - Place C-M on MC
      - Place all others on DS
    - Notify Laison, consider options - decide whether to
      - Keep
      - House in Special Collections
      - Discard
      - Replace Now
      - Replace Later
        
        No Callback - Disard DS after 4 Weeks; move MC to SC after 8;
All DS Records to be deleted from Koha, EDS, & OCLC, and restored on one-by-one reacceptance basis

Until a new weeding campaign and/or a major shift of circ stacks down to trhe basement.

Slow Boil/Micro Cuts
One by one, many cases a book needing immediate maointenance,, replace with new
some of you were doing this by defaulkt, but I have also been doing it via an onlging "slow boil" project

Micro Cuts...
not an agressive batch weeding, but
1-I will notify you (via form) when a book gets placed on Decieion Shelves (crusty, old, zero use, bordelin salvagable)
I work hard to restore and repair the out of print books, so these are all accessible somewhere else, but I'll leva ethat up to you...