This month, Marie Kondō’s decluttering movement takes to the airwaves with Netflix’s Tidying Up with Marie Kondō. Yet books about cleaning up and getting organized populate the publishing calendar well into March. Below are a few examples for a well-stocked display.
This month, Marie Kondō’s decluttering movement takes to the airwaves with Netflix’s Tidying Up with Marie Kondō. Yet books about cleaning and getting organized populate the publishing calendar well into March. Below are a few examples to pile up with last year's hits, such as Margareta Magnusson’s The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, for a well-stocked display.
It makes sense that electronic budgets increased in 2020, followed by a decrease. A variable cost resource like Overdrive, which is budgeted based on demand in my system, saw an increase in usage followed by a drop. As a result, budget costs have dropped compared to 2020 but increased slightly compared to the last pre-covid year. One thing to note: is the number of users utilizing electronic resources. We've had a drop in checkouts but an exponential increase in unique users. The big question is, how do we compete as librarians with the discovery tools an electronic user may already have built into their lives (tik tok, GoodReads, Instagram, etc?) -Jose
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