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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hello all!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">One of our team members found a way to work smarter not harder when weeding:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Instead of dragging books to her desk and piling them everywhere, she took photos with her smartphone of the books that had been pulled off of a shelf (by reason of publication date) and placed on a cart. </li><li>At her workstation, using the photo, she looked up by title (this lets us see what other branches in our system have the book). </li><li>This saved her the steps of hauling the book truck to her desk, picking each title up and scanning them. </li><li>Once she determined the books meet the criteria for weeding she withdraws them from our ILS, goes back to the cart, stamps them and sends them on to our Friend's book sale.</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt">Saves wear and tear on her arms and repetitive arm motion and already, with a small batch of photos, she can tell it will save her lots of time.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">We are a rural library system with limited staff and limited counter or workspace. We have to multitask and sometimes weeding is logistically a challenge (since we are helping customers, too). But we believe in weeding continuously. Not sure if this made any sense, but I thought it was clever. I've included one of her photos of Large Print titles being considered for weeding.</span><br><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I'll be pleased to forward your queries of how this actually works to her.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Happy Reading!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Susan</span></p>
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<div><strong style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font size="4">Susan Hill Pieper, M.S.L.S</font>.</strong><strong><font size="4">, C.P.L.</font></strong></div><div><strong style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2">Ohio Web Library Specialist</font></strong><br></div><div><strong style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="4">Director/Librarian</font></strong><br></div><div><strong style="font-size:12.8px">Paulding County Carnegie Library</strong><br></div><div><b>205 South Main Street</b></div><div><b>Paulding, Ohio 45879</b></div><div><b>(419) 399-2032 - Voice (419) 399-2114 - Fax</b></div><div><font color="#000099" size="1"><a href="http://www.pauldingcountylibrary.com" target="_blank">www.pauldingcountylibrary.o</a>rg</font></div><div><font color="#000099" size="1"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PauldingCountyLibrary?ref=hl" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/PauldingCountyLibrary</a></font></div><div><a href="mailto:spieper@pauldingcountylibrary.org" target="_blank"><font size="1">spieper@pauldingcountylibrary.org</font></a></div><div><font size="2"><b>*******************************************************************<br><br></b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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