As a routine part of collection development the library must remove materials from the collection. It is called weeding. This is something we do not take lightly. Basically, we consider variables like condition, whether the item gets checked out or Continue reading Weeding Books is a Routine Part of Collection Development
I have been weeding the non-fiction collection, using a computer program that can generate a report of books that have not gone out recently. When we used to go to the shelves to weed the worn out, dirty out-of-date books, Continue reading Endangered Books
When my wife and I started packing before we moved into our current house I used to think we had a couple boxes worth of books. I was wrong. When we finished packing everything, I discovered we had 39 boxes Continue reading “Weeding” Good for the Library