The tagging teams are making good progress through the Central Collection with the new Level 11 (containing A-BX) almost entirely shelved with tagged books. We have also tagged D-DA, H-HA, and HM-HQ. We expect to start tagging F-GV tomorrow, shifting them from Level 4 to Level 9.

We are expecting more tagging trolleys to arrive this week, taking our total to eight trolleys. The plan is to have two of these trolleys operating in the EPS library from Wednesday, tagging the serials. The remaining six trolleys will be working throughout the Central Library.

Staff working at Central checkin will need to pay careful attention to which trolleys returned items should be stored on. As I wrote last week, Rosie’s “Guide to the Post-Earthquake Location and Management of Central Library Material” (found on the K Drive) clearly marks which sections of the collection can be shelved as normal and which sections are currently being tagged. Returns that belong to a section currently being tagged need to be placed on the trolleys marked “Do Not Shelve – Leave for Taggers”. However, as we now have a lot of tagging trolleys operating, the taggers do not have time to shelve recently returned items once they’ve tagged them. Therefore, once taggers have tagged the recently returned items on the “Leave for Taggers Trolley” they will place them on another trolley clearly marked with a large ‘thumbs up’ sign as well as labelled “Tagged Recent Returns – to be shelved in new location.” Central staff can shelve items on this trolley.

Fiona T