The teams resumed tagging on Wednesday at the Central and EPS libraries.

Levels 10 and 11 are now complete, with books classified A – DS580 tagged and reshelved on these two floors. Levels 8 and 9 are roughly half complete, with books classified H-HX and G-GV tagged and reshelved.

The taggers are currently working on level 4. We were fortunate that only a few books fell down in the Boxing day aftershock so the tagging project was not affected. One team is working on tagging and moving the DT-F books (moving to Level 9). Another team is working on tagging and moving the J-JZ books (moving to Level 8). These books were on shelving that collapsed during the earthquake so are packed in boxes. This presents difficulties in trying to reorder the books before they go onto the shelves.

Joan has staff unpacking and ordering these books which our tagging teams then tag and move to their new location. This is a good trial for us in figuring out the best process for ordering, tagging and shelving the large numbers of books on Level 4 that were boxed and sent to Crown after the earthquake and which we anticipate we will start tagging in the next week or two.

One important message for lending staff working at Central is that books being returned by borrowers should not be resensitised from now on. I believe EPS has already stopped resensitising books in preparation for when their library is completely tagged. As we have floors that have been tagged and completely desensitised we don’t want sensitised books going on these shelves and there is no need to sensitise with the new system going live in a few weeks.

Fiona T