[Publib] audiobooks on cassette

[Avery Hicks]

Hi, Elizabeth,

We are no longer purchasing new audiobooks in cassette format. We  
stopped doing this about a year ago. We could see that use of the  
cassette collection was consistently dropping as CD use was rising, so  
we decided it was time to focus our attention on CDs. At that time, I  
undertook a massive weeding of the collection to make space for more  
CDs, but did not wipe them out entirely. Cassettes now make up about  
35% of our audiobook collection, and I am weeding them regularly as  
they come through damaged, missing tapes, etc. They will most likely  
be gone completely in a couple of years.

I thought there might be an outcry from audiobook patrons when I  
initially withdrew about 600 of them last year, but there was nary a  
peep of protest.

-Avery Hicks
Williamsburg Regional Library


  Quoting Elizabeth Wright <eljwright at gmail.com>:

> Happy Friday from the rainsoaked Midwest!  Please gather under the umbrella
> and let me know what you think about audiobooks on cassette. In particular:
>
> Do you still collect new audiobooks in this format?  Have you kept your
> existing cassette audiobook collection or have you chosen to withdraw this
> format entirely (and if so, when did you disband it)?  If you continue to
> have such a collection, what's your rationale for keeping it?  When do you
> anticipate not carrying cassette audiobook collection any longer?
>
> Thank you so much....and please help yourself to a towel!
>
> Elizabeth Wright Popular Materials Center Supervisor
> Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
>
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Avery Hicks
Reference Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
(757)259-7720         www.wrl.org
(757)259-7798(fax)    ahicks at wrl.org
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