Collection Maintenance Feb 2023

True or False?

You are a library assistant. Or your are a librarian who is done with your inventory. You should clear the carts in front of Emerson’s office before working on anything in the collection maintenance zone.

• True

• False

True or False?

You are a librarian working on your inventory. You should put items either place: the collection maintenance zone or the carts in front of Emerson’s office. 

• True

• False

Answer explanation

False! Only put your inventory things in the collection maintenance zone.

You have item to discard. What do you do?

• Check it out to REPAIR, change the category Item 3 to “grubby,” and  put the item on the DISCARD cart.

• Check it out to DISCARD, and put the item on the DISCARD cart.

• Check it out to DISCARD, change the category Item 3 to “grubby,” and put the item on the DISCARD cart.

• Check it out to DISCARD, mark out the barcode with sharpie, stamp it withdrawn, and put the item on the BOOKCELLAR cart.

You have an item with a working RFID tag, but there is no record found in symphony. What is this called in Symphony?

• Orphan Item

• Add Item

• Twofer Item

• Duplicate Version

What qualities should a book show, after you put on a new book cover?

• Item has a new book cover, but you can still see old due date stamps.

• Item looks new, but there is no spine label.

• Item has gummy residue on the cover, but all the pages are intact.

• Item looks new, has a spine label, and is easy to access.

Which direction(s) are the wrong way for labels to look? Select more than one answer.

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True or False? You should add a Central sticker.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

This process has changed back and forth, but yes - you should add a Central sticker to new books.

Which are reasons why we are not discarding “dusties”? Select all that apply.

• Because visitor traffic is not back at pre-covid levels

• Because construction at central

• Because Symphony is a new-ish ILS, so not everything has been checked out with Symphony

• Because we are doing a scientific study on types of mold and dust

When looking at an item, we should NOT consider which of the following:

• Diversity

• Age

• Archival value

• Our own biases

True or False? Periodicals are part of collection maintenance?

• True

• False