The Less-Used Books Management Using Knowledge Management at Library and Information Health Science Department, Chiang Mai University Library

The less-used books management objective is to provide the work-flow and criteria for removing lesser used books. In addition, it is to provide the information and service regarding less-used materials inquiry by the users to the library staff member. The KM used followed the steps of Identify, create, share, store, and apply. As a result, the library concluded 8 steps strategy for less-used materials management; 1. Establish the criteria for removing less used or no longer in use material, 2. Survey the existing collections, 3. Remove the books that meet the criteria, 4. Document the removed materials, 5. Store the removed materials, 6.Create the discarded books list, 7. Verify the discarded books list, and execute as premised. Each faculty libraries has managed the less-used books following the strategy from 2013 to 2017. In total, the removed less-used materials to storage were 10,745 books. And the weeded out material were 17,445 books. The satisfaction surveys result shows the high level as the emerging spaces provide more accessibility to wanted materials. In addition, the capacity of the library was increased with updated materials on the shelves.