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Week 14 - Shelving Reading

Shelf reading is the process of checking library collections on shelves to ensure books and materials are properly shelved. The librarian or library staff conduct shelf reading each morning before opening to make sure items are in the correct location. Users sometimes reshelve items in the wrong place, so shelf reading finds and corrects misplaced materials. Keeping accurate statistics in different library sections helps evaluate services, identify popular subject areas, and determine future collection needs.

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Week 14 - Shelving Reading

Shelf reading is the process of checking library collections on shelves to ensure books and materials are properly shelved. The librarian or library staff conduct shelf reading each morning before opening to make sure items are in the correct location. Users sometimes reshelve items in the wrong place, so shelf reading finds and corrects misplaced materials. Keeping accurate statistics in different library sections helps evaluate services, identify popular subject areas, and determine future collection needs.

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Week 13

SHELF READING
What is shelf reading
Shelf reading is the art of checking the library collection on shelves to know
whether books materials are in their appropriate places.

They are supposed to shelf read regularly in order to remove the mis-shelved
books and put them in their proper places

Shelf Reading
Shelf reading entails going through the shelves and checking the
arrangements to ensure that every book is in its proper position. The
librarian or library officers does shelf reading after shelving every
morning before the library is opened to users. Library users are in the
habit of placing books in wrong positions on the shelf to achieve their
selfish end. The practice is more common in academic, school and
public libraries. The library officers carryout shelf reading to ensure
that books that are wrongly shelved or hidden by the users are placed
in the right place.

IMPORTANCE OF SHELF READING


- To facilitate the finding of materials by user
- To put back wrongly shelved materials to their appropriate positions
- To check materials whose stickers are out for replacement
- Sometimes wrongly classified materials are detected and removed for
reclassification.
- Shelf reading discourages users from hiding library materials. Students
sometimes hide books so that they will be the only users of such a book.

Why wrongly shelved materials


There are many reasons why some books or other library materials are wrongly
shelved. When wrongly shelved materials are observed there is need for action

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because they have their adverse effects on the library as an organism and on the
library users as looser.

Reason why there are wrongly shelved materials in the library


1. Putting back books on the shelf by no-library worker:- This affects library
statistical record. It posses headache of shelf reading or cross –checking.

2. Deliberate action by library users.


3. Untrained library workers shelving
4. Tired workers
missing call numbers

LIBRARY STATISTICS
This is the art of keeping quantitative records of operations in the library.
Statistics are kept in the various sections of the library.
The Circulation section keep record of books loaned out to users, books used in
the library, registered students, frequency and pattern of uses that visit the library at a
different time each working day.
At the Serials Section, statistics of journals subscribed, journals used are taken.
The Acquisition section keep statistics of materials acquired, purchased,
donated, exchange, etc.
Cataloguing section, statistics of number of books catalogued and classified are
kept.
The Bindery and Reprographic section also take statistics of work done in those
section, etc.

IMPORTANCE OF STATISTICS
1. It help to know the subject areas or discipline heavily utilized, under
utilize or not utilized
2. It help to know number of books loaned out of the library
3. It also helps to determine the yearly addition of materials to the
already existing ones.
4. With statistics, services to client can be evaluated and necessary
adjustment will be made.

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