[Publib] audiobooks on cassette

[Julie Bauer]

I know a lot of libraries let their audio and video cassette collections dwindle by attrition, as Matt says.  But this strategy carries its own price -- your collection will start to look tired and scruffy, and there literally will never be anything new in it.  If you have any space issues, they will be exacerbated by keeping old media on your shelves.

If you decide to go this route, you should have an end date in mind when you will discard/sell/give away what's left.  Or if not a date, a condition, such as when the number of items in the collection = X.

Some people will complain, but they will get over it.

Julie Bauer
Loudoun County Public Library
Leesburg, Virginia


----- Original Message ----
From: "Shaw, Matthew M" <shawmm at forsyth.cc>
To: Elizabeth Wright <eljwright at gmail.com>; publib at webjunction.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:57:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Publib] audiobooks on cassette


 
Do you still collect
new audiobooks in this format?  Yes. Most new additions are donations,
however.
 
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)?  No, we'll keep them. 
 
If you continue to have such a collection, what's
your rationale for keeping it?  A lot of folks still
only have a cassette player, particularly our older customers.Also, we have a lot of money tied up in that
collection, since the items were so expensive in the first
place.
 
When do you anticipate not carrying cassette audiobook
collection any longer?We will let the collection
dwindle by attrition. Over time, fewer people will have cassette players.
Libraries went through the same thing with vinyl records. We are also letting
attrition take care of our video collection.
 
Matt Shaw
Adult Services Librarian
Kernersville Public Library
Forsyth County Library
System
130 East Mountain St.
Kernersville NC 27284
shawmm at forsyth.cc
 

 

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