One of Jennifer’s MANY Twitter Rants on Weeding. BFTP: Keeping Your Library Collection Smelling F.R.E.S.H! Collection Maintenance and Weeding. Weeding Library Books: A Brilliant Strategy - Library Learners. Why We Weed - Awful Library Books. About This Site Librarians, bibliophiles, and lovers of nostalgia are all welcome here.
Your librarians for this site are Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner. Weeding - NYC School Librarian Guidebook - New York City School Library System at NYC DOE Office of Library Services. Weeding/De-selection Guidelines Weeding is an essential component of any collection development plan in order to maintain a collection that meets the needs of students and the curriculum. The weeding guidelines should include reasons for weeding and criteria for de-selection. The. Why You Should Weed More Than Just Books at the End of the Year.
At the end of my first year at Stewart Middle Magnet School, I ended up with a great opportunity.
We replaced an aging air conditioning system over the summer, meaning that ALL the furniture had to be moved into the gym. Luckily, the books could stay on the shelves with plastic covering them. The library at that time was extremely cluttered – I had already been doing an extensive weeding of the collection. But there was lots of unnecessary furniture, and old art projects on display gathering dust, and weird, out-of-date posters. These things “disappeared” over that summer of air conditioning work. Weeding Without Controversy through inclusion and transparency. The Librarian Who Hates Books Internet Addiction in 1998 Earlier this year my daughter came home from school to tell me about a controversy at her school.
The school librarians weeded the collection, and some students became so offended that they took to social media to protest the discarding of library books. There was even an unsubstantiated rumor that a student had been suspended for climbing into a dumpster. One of my daughter’s teachers also became upset about the removal of library books.