The tagging has begun!

We had our full RFID tagging team start this Monday with plans to begin tagging on level 9. We’ve been bedevilled with problems with our tagging trolleys this week which has slowed us down but we now have one team tagging from B-BX on Level 9 and another tagging tagging from D-DA on Level 8. At this stage we anticipate that after finishing DA, we will start HM-HX on Level 10 (possibly on Monday).

Once the books have been tagged, they are being reshelved on new floors as part of the process of reorganising the Central Collection into alphabetical order throughout the building. The A-Z project, combined with working around shelving being moved and/or built post-quake, means that the order in which we will tag the collection is changing frequently. For example, we are tagging D-DA first because moving that to the empty shelving on Level 10 leaves empty the shelves on Level 8 to which we will move HM-HX . It’s kindof like a giant game of tetris. This constantly changing process does make it hard to clearly communicate to everyone where and when we are tagging.

At the moment, we have signs on Levels 8 & 9 reminding people not to shelve books on these floors. We also have trolleys at CKI with signs reminding people to leave books bound for Levels 8, 9 & 11 for our tagging teams to take care of. Rosie has designed a very useful cheat sheet which is kept at CKI to remind people what Central staff shelve and what tagging staff shelve. This will be updated as the situation changes and can be found on the K drive in the lending folder.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Fiona