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Presentation on Weeding

Posted by Sue Buchanan on October 4, 2007 at 7:56am
Six and a half years ago I arrived in my current media center. The collection was old and short on accreditation numbers -- I remember 1974 as an estimate of average, but it surprised me that the age was that young! It is now up to 1984 after some weeding and using every penny I could on print purchases. Next Tuesday afternoon the media specialists from our county will meet here and I am supposed to do a program on weeding. To end the presentation we will weed the 900s. I am going to "remind" the group of the tenets of weeding -- age, accuracy, physical condition, appropriateness and political correctness. I need to get my thoughts together and organized on this.
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  • Mia Beesley October 15, 2007 at 7:12am
    One of my professors in grad school gave us a great one page report to use that showed numbers in the collection before weeding and after weeding based on decade and a quick reference historical reference (such as 1960s would be Man Walked on Moon). It is great for PTA presentations when I am asking for money to improve my nonfiction! I could send you a copy if you would like. I'm not explaining it very well...
  • Darla Grediagin October 4, 2007 at 1:19pm
    Good luck on your presentation. One of the ideas I have used in the past is to give the librarians doing the weeding a check sheet. When they choose an item to weed, they can check the reason it should be weeded.
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