Transforming a Library, Inch by Inch

Now that I "weeded" the business books in our library, I've started ordering new business books and am having a blast doing it. I have $3000 to spend, which isn't as much money as it sounds. I think that my boss is inwardly rolling her eyes at my scouring the Internet (and, usually, Amazon) for the best price for each book. However, I want to get the most bang for our buck because our local campus will have business bachelor's degrees in the fall. (We also have some business degrees in our branch campus up in Normal, but they tend not to get books from us. It would be nice if they did.)

My big find today was a book on Organizational Psychology specifically for business people. And we're starting to get the new books that I've ordered, although I'm going to order more. I've also been getting some books that I'm considering through interlibrary loan. It works; I usually can make a decision (and a better decision) after flipping through the actual book for five minutes than I could just based on the bibliographies that I've accumulated.

I weeded the Psychology section and am done with it. I'm about to start the Economics section because I want to look at it while I'm ordering business books. However, I printed out the listing with circulation stats for that section, only to find that the printout was 68 pages long (in landscape). MUCH bigger than our business section. That figures, given that we've had business degrees in the Normal campus for a while, but have never had an Economics degree. (We have to laugh at some of the vagaries of our collection. Otherwise, we'd throw our hands up.) Well, at least it means that I won't have to order a lot of Economic books, so I can concentrate on business.

I really enjoy what I do :)