Weeding,+Some+Ideas+to+Keep+You+Going

VEMA's proposal to the state Board of Education included a suggested copyright age of 15 years or less. In this session Claudia Reed presented ideas about making this task easier. She also presented tips on strengthening your collection and gaining administrative and faculty support. She presented statistics from schools that had done extensive weeding that showed their overall circulations increased. She suggested this was due to the fact that students could see the good stuff that was left and it made the books look more appealing to students that were browsing for something to read.

Her presentation Included the following points Helpful sites for weeding [|CREW Manual] [|ALA Bibliograph for Library Collections Evaluation]
 * Why schould you weed?
 * To Attract users to books
 * For Timely information
 * Room for new books
 * Your collection is your legacy
 * Looking at your Library as a Garden...
 * Gaining Public Support
 * What should you weed?
 * M-U-S-T-Y book weeding guideline (M-Misleading or bad Info. U-ugly torn, stained, falling apart. S-superseded by newer editions. T-trival, better books available. Y-Why have it? Reading level not appropriate, topic not studied, never checked out.)
 * Use Titlewise for copyright ages
 * Dealing with Discarded Books
 * Develope a weeding plan