OPAC (Destiny) + Follett Titlewave = Very Useful Reports
Another bustling day of activity at the high school media center. There are always a slew of classes coming in and out - one definitely gets the vibe that they are welcome here! Working toward a goal of weeding the media center's collection in the upcoming weeks, the MS set out to run a collection age report. Interestingly, the entire collection can be exported to Follett's Titlewave which in turn can generate some extremely useful reports in a matter of minutes! The average age of this school's particular collection (of almost 16,000 titles) was 1986! I don't mean to sound like I am trying to be trite, but I was 14 in 1986! Anyways, the report went so far as to break down each Dewey category and let us know what the age of the collection should be for the various topics. As you can imagine, some of the non-fiction section is severely out of date - such as technology, social sciences, genetics, and planetary resources. Now the process of looking at each individual 'out-of-date' book begins to determine what might still be relevant and what can be weeded out in order to make room for more current titles.
