Weeding Technical Services Library and Information Science

Weeding

Category for sites relating to the weeding (the deselection) of materials from a library collection.

• - Provided by the State of Iowa Department of Education. Why, when, and how to weed, with subjective and objective weeding criteria. "This document is offered in response to numerous questions library media specialists have about weeding library media
  
• - Policy approved by the Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) Public Library Board.
  
• - Provides a copy of this libraries weeding policy.
  
• - Provides seven basic principles for those new to the weeding process.
  
• - The SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club is an effort to help provide Florida's School Library Media Specialists with guidelines and suggestions for weeding their collections a little at a time as well as for adding quality materials.
  
• - Includes a section on weeding items in school library collections.
  
• - Includes a section on the archives de-accession policy.
  
• - Includes a section about weeding media materials.
  
• - A collection of frequently asked questions (faqs) about weeding: why is it done, what is done with weeded materials. Includes a section "What happened in San Francisco?". Prepared by Karen Klopfer, WMRLS Regional Librarian, Berkshire Subregio
  
• - "Discusses the importance of having a weeding policy, the rationale behind weeding, some reasons it is difficult to weed, practical information for use in planning or conducting weeding, and options for the materials you remove." Part of the Co
  
• - Highlights of a program held at the American Library Association's 2000 Annual Conference in Chicago. Selected bibiography, excerpts of some policies, annotated links to some web resources, text of a skit about weeding, and the main points from the key
  
  

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