Alaska Bush Library Service

This year, as opposed to last, I am working on organizing my library better. As all libraries have, we have materials that don’t get checked out. These materials either need to be promoted better or weeded from the library so we have more room. This will be a long process, but my library will be better for it when it is finished. My goal right now is to clean and weed a section of shelves each day.

Then I will start on the library tubs. Some of these we don’t need any longer because each school has purchased the material. Some we don’t need because we no longer teach in those areas.

Today I tried something different. We printed spine labels from the automation program. It includes a line on the top of the label that says ‘Fiction’ or ‘Nonfiction’ on the top. This is why we don’t use the label program. I do not like this automation system. This year another goal of mine is to get KOHA up and going. It is an open source program. We know that we will have to spend some money to tailor it to what we want, but it has got to be better than what I am doing now.