[Publib] audiobooks on cassette - popular with special ed teachers

[SIMINITUS, JACQUELYN E (ATTPB)]

Audiobooks are popular with special education teachers.  Maybe rather
than letting your collection dwindle, you could contact your local
school district to see if there is interest in the collection.  The
school library or a special education classroom library might see your
collection as a treasure.  If so, make it a special celebration of
collaboration rather than a quiet gift.
 
Best wishes.
- Jackie
 
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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Julie Bauer
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:44 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] audiobooks on cassette


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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