Floating Materials

What does floating materials mean?

When a customer returns an item, it is shelved at the location where it was returned instead of being sent back to the owning location. Upon checkin, the location is automatically updated in the library catalog to show where it now resides.

Why float?

1. Agencies will provide better browsing, because collections will be continually refreshed.

2. Popular materials will be available more quickly for patrons, because they will not have to be shipped around town.

3. The library will give better value for public funding, because we will reduce delivery, and the physical stress associated with it.

4. Floating materials will be considered one collection that is distributed among all agencies with the exception of the w7th library. The movement of these materials will be driven by customer use.

5. Selectors will have a better idea of community use when ordering materials.


What floats?

All of the following materials will float:

CDS

VIDEOS

DVDS

BONC/CDS

AUDIO CASSETTES

BOOK CLUB IN A BAG

ADULT FICTION including Mystery, Western and Science fiction

LARGE PRINT FICTION including Mystery, Western and Science fiction

GRAPHIC NOVELS ADULT, TEEN and JUVENILE (FICTION ONLY)

jHUMOR

jBOARD BOOKS

jCOMICS

jREADER



The following special collection materials will not float:

1. ALL language learning materials

2. Highland Library- lower level materials (HI-LL)

3. Merriam Library- Bungalow & Deaf/HOH collections

3. Rondo Library- Black & Asian authors

4. Central Library- Fitzgerald & MN. Book Award Collections

5. All W 7th materials



All other special collections will be discontinued. No special labeling of these collections will be needed because the collections will float.

We do not plan on continuing to rotate BONC's & Large print items because they will float automatically.

Non-fiction books will not float.



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