PPT Slide
Gardening Tips for Painless Collection Weeding
Materials Ripe for Weeding:
“Library materials may be weeded because of their content...their physical condition...their use patterns...or a combination of these features....Duplicates of titles...[and]superseded editions of books might well be eliminated.” Bonk and Magrill, p. 315-316.
“My harvest included excess copies of solid monographs, some books either too sophisticated or too simplified for my population, many ‘gift’ books that never should have been entered into the collections, as well as the more predictable victims of weeding, the shabby, no-longer-accurate books.” Berson, p. 72.