I am going to be Co-Librarian next year. That means in 2010, I'll be the main Librarian. We have too, too, many books. We meet in a church, the church is running out of room. We are down to one book cabinet. No one wants to get rid of any books.
I think when it's my turn, I am going to be quilting DVD's. Don't you think that is an excellent idea?
What do all of your Guilds do with your books, that is if you have a library?
Cindy
I think the DVD's are a marvellous idea, Cindy. . In message , teleflora writes
Our guild has a huge library (we have over 500 members) They books are kept in large rubbermaid containers, alphabetical by author. The library brings half the books one month and the other half the other month. We don't have any storage place at the meeting site, so we have to keep in in a storage locker along with all of our other items (quilt racks and such for quilt shows, philanthropy projects along with fabric for philanthropy, etc.) A day or so before the meeting, the librarian has to go to the locker to get books for that month.
HTH
Debbi in SO CA
teleflora wrote:
Cindy: The local guild has two chapters, so the library is split into two units, a red unit and a blue unit. (These are NON partisan units. LOL) Each book has color sticker on it. Well, the library units swap out from chapter to chapter every six months. Each unit has about six 'milk crates' of books. They go home with the current librarians. We have not on site closets.
Periodically, the librarians cull the collection of books that have not been circulated very often, just like in the county library. Since each book has a sign out card, it is easy to see which books are no longer in demand. Those books are sold to members at a reasonable price.
Does this help? PAT in VA/USA
Cindy: The local guild has two chapters, so the library is split into two units, a red unit and a blue unit. (These are NON partisan units. LOL) Each book has color sticker on it. Well, the library units swap out from chapter to chapter every six months. Each unit has about six 'milk crates' of books. They go home with the current librarians. We have not on site closets.
Periodically, the librarians cull the collection of books that have not been circulated very often, just like in the county library. Since each book has a sign out card, it is easy to see which books are no longer in demand. Those books are sold to members at a reasonable price.
Does this help? PAT in VA/USA
Yeah, but boy I sure wouldn't want to haul books to the car and carry them around with me all month.
We've got books that haven't been checked out in 5 or more years. Some of the "older" members throw a fit every time we try to do something with them. I think I will suggest they take them home with them and keep the "resources" safe for all us other members.
Thanks, Pat!
Cindy
You gotta be really strong to be Librarian at your guild, huh Debbi?
LOL
Cindy
Thank you, Patti! Me too.
Cindy
If we have too many books or older ones, we use the extra for door prizes at every meeting. Gen
We don't have a quilting guild, but if we did I like the idea of the CD's, but someone would need to be willing to teach me a few classes on how to use a CD, and willing to go with me to purchase a "thing" so I could use the CD. Barbara, who don't know nothing about CD's
My guild is fairly large -- close to 300 members -- and we have both an afternoon and an evening meeting -- same day, same place, usually same program. We meet in a church, and the church allows us room to store our library. The books are in rubbermaid tubs. The afternoon librarian gets the tubs out of the store room, uses a large cart to move them to the meeting room, and puts them out on tables before the meeting. The evening librarian puts them away after the evening meeting.
Julia in MN
One of the reasons I never volunteered to be the librarian
Debbi in SO CA
teleflora wrote:
You don't have a DVD player, Bobbie?
Cindy
Dear Cindy, do you have a CD player that plays music and are you willing to come show me how to operate a radio with a music player thing? OK, now, what is the difference in a CD player and a DVD player? Can you REALLY learn how to get everything going THAT easy????? Can you do the music thing on the computer? What about a DVD? I have an empty front bedroom, and the good stores aren't very far away. Would you like to vacation in SC for 4 or 5 days? Barbara in SC
I love SC and would be happy to come show you how to set up your DVD player. And you can play music on your DVD player but you can't play DVDs on your CD player. If you have a computer made in the last 10 years, you should be able to play DVDs & CDs on that as well.
Cindy
Cindy,
I am the librarian for my guild. How ours works may not be feasible for you but maybe it will help someone else.
We meet in a church basement. When I became librarian the library was on a bookshelf in a closet with room for one person at a time.
The previous librarian mentioned that she looked at book carts, thinking that being able to wheel a few out at each meeting would be helpful. Who knew book carts were so expensive, though?
I designed a big two sided bookshelf on wheels and a friend in the woodworkers' guild took it to his meeting to see if they wanted to take it on as a project. One member offered to do it, and he ended up even donating the materials. I found some very good casters online so my out of pocket costs were about $50. My husband came to the meeting where I wheeled it out of the closet; I had kept the whole project a secret so it was a thrill for me to push it out and pivot it in front of the guild. I'm normally somewhat shy and not into dramatic entrances but I got great joy in presenting it.
The bookcart holds our current library of 232 books, plus notebooks with our bylaws, archives, photo albums, etc. I wheel it out of the closet (and the casters are good enough to jump the hump between linoleum and low pile carpet) and park it in good lighting. It gets wheeled back at the close of the meeting.
Other library info: I have all the books/authors in an Excel spreadsheet that can be emailed to anyone in the guild who would like a copy. A hard copy is available on request, but I don't print them out ahead of time. I write a column (Library Corner) in the newsletter each month with the titles/authors of books added to the library. Book donations are always welcome and the donor is thanked in the column, too.
I have a decent budget that I try to spread out over the year. Donations are willingly accepted and I encourage recommendations and suggestions.
I hope this helps. I am interested to see what other librarians have to say, too.
Bert in Rice, WA
Howdy!
Lots of good info, Bert.
In the past few years our guild has acquired a couple of those fold-up, roll-around bookcases. We've had the list of all the books in a database for at least 15 yrs
R/Sandy- love to quilt, love to read
We are a small guild (25 members) and we don't have any space for storing books. So we are setting up a "virtual" library this fall. Members will photocopy the cover and table of contents of books that they are willing to share. This info will go into plastic page protectors, one per book, and marked with the owners name (or names, if more than one person has the same book). So.... if I want to borrow book "x" I will go to member "Y" and ask her for it. This way we will only have to bring the binder to the meeting. We won't need a librarian either since the loans will all be member to member.
Allison in Montreal
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