Tuesday, April 14, 2009

From the Better-Late-Than-Never Dept.

Standing out....for perhaps the last time

Link to April 14 Jamestown [NY] Post Journal article, "Mayville Library Makes Online Transition".

Excerpt: A member of the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, the Mayville Library began weeding materials from its shelves in 2007 in preparation for the automation - a process which requires the cataloging of each book.

According to DeSantis, nearly 10,000 items were weeded out, with many finding new homes through book sale events. Books which the Mayville Library has, but other member libraries do not, were added into the system.

''In the process of automating,'' DeSantis said, ''we really started to go from a 1975 library to a 2008 and now 2009 library.''

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