At the AANM library, we’ve been consolidating and reorganizing our collections for a few months now, due to recent large donations and strategic plan changes. Our periodicals collection was by far the most troublesome to work on and weed through since we are now using the old periodicals section for a book collection. After months of weeding, planning, fretting and plotzing we finally decided what we were going to do, and for this we needed a new Magazine Rack! Of course this required further fretting and plotzing to decide which one we wanted, how much it would cost, what was the best deal and if we could order it…

And Lo! It arrived today! The assembly seemed pretty straight forward, all we had to do was screw on the little legs which required only four screws. But the whole ordeal turned into a saga of epic proportions. The thrill of victory! The crush of defeat! The power of teamwork! It has it all! Let me present: The Rackening starring Dr. Matthew as “The Assembler” and Aaron as “The Savior”. Imagine the narration in Patrick Stewart’s voice….

Using Twitter as a communication tool for libraries is not a particularly wild idea anymore, though many libraries are still not using it for one reason or another. However, I’m not talking about creating a general Twitter account for your library, I’m talking about Librarians using Twitter for collection development, particularly for subject specific collection development.