<html><body><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div> <!--StartFragment--><div style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Hi all, </div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">I know this has been discussed before, but I am investigating starting a tween/middle school (better name?) collection and need input. </div><ul style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><li>Did you take books from existing J/Teen collections and create a Tween collection or did you start from scratch?</li><li>Have your circ stats increased from books that were moved over, if you used books in your existing collection?</li><li>Feedback from patrons (positive or negative)?</li><li>If you have a collection, do you separate the books or keep them interfiled with a tween sticker on the spine?</li><li>Do you find that there are too many places to send patrons looking for materials? (This was a question brought to me when I said I wanted to investigate this collection)</li><li>Procedure for your processing staff on how to determine what goes in tween?</li><li>Anything else you can think of that might be relevant/helpful?</li></ul><div style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fdfcfa; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">I will compile the responses for anyone who wants them. </div><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div>Thanks! <br><br></div><div>Jessica Wilhoite</div><div>Assistant Director/Youth Librarian <br>Romulus Public Library <br>11121 Wayne Rd. <br>Romulus, MI 48174 <br>(734) 942-7589 <br><br>Serving Romulus and Huron Township Residents</div><div><img src="cid:5f489e2dae48350c28b310c97573f121c132e5c1@zimbra" data-mce-src="/home/jwilhoite@tln.lib.mi.us/Briefcase/sig.jpg" doc="Briefcase/sig.jpg"></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="quoteText" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: #181818; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 21px;"><em><span style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">“I see libraries and librarians as front-line soldiers in the war <br>against </span></em><em><span style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">illiteracy and the lack of imagination.” -Neil Gaiman</span></em></h1></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>