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News from the SC Stacks

By Nancy Davis

Nancy is the representative for the
Sun City Texas Library.

certainty and decisions. An expansion
program was under way, and though the

In 2006, the library used display carousels for VHS tapes, audio books, and some library really needed more space, what
paperback book overflow. kind of space would be forthcoming and
how would we use it? Meetings were at-
In my December 2015 report on the but since borrowing was still on the honor tended by our leader, Barbara Dixon, but
history and development of the Sun system, this was rarely enforced. Other the final decision was not hers to make.
City Texas Library, I stopped at Janu- requests included asking patrons to not We were given a large, free-standing
ary 2004, at which time new shelving remove covers from books and “no meet- storage cabinet; five tall, three-section
was being installed. This shelving is the ings in the library, please!” shelves in the lobby and six tall, two-
low, U-shaped structure in the middle of 2009: A YEAR OF CHANGE section shelves in the library room. These
the room. These shelves helped alleviate shelves were finally in place in January,
the crowding for a short time, but by The year 2009 brought change, un- 2010. Even with all those new shelves, we
were overflowing by July of that year. By

November 2004, patrons were asked to

not donate books to the library because

of lack of space.

Sometime in 2005, the library published
a guideline of desirable books for dona-

tions: no outdated medical or technical

books, no encyclopedias or large sets of
books, no Readers’ Digest Condensed

books and no old magazines. News and

Views used the library as their broad-

casting area which closed the facility for

several hours each month.

In 2006, genre labels were applied to

some paperbacks indicating romance

(pink dot), western (yellow dot) and

mystery (red dot). The collection of books
on any given shelf seemed to vary from

crowded to empty as notices periodically

asked for return of books or no more do-
nations. This was especially noticeable

in small sections, such as Large Print

and Short Stories. In November 2007, a
limited checkout of six books took effect, Book shelves were added to the Social Center lobby in January 2010.

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