Weeding (Technical Services)

Weeding Sites:

Baltimore County Public Schools: Criteria for Selection of Library Media Materials Baltimore County Public Schools: Criteria for Selection of Library Media Materials: Includes a section about weeding media materials. (Weeding) http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/office/admin/selection.html Weed It!: For an Attractive and Useful Collection Weed It!: For an Attractive and Useful Collection: 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 (Weeding) http://www.wmrls.org/services/colldev/weed_it.html CDT: Weeding CDT: Weeding: "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 (Weeding) http://www.lib.az.us/cdt/weeding.htm SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club: 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. (Weeding) http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/ Collection Development Policy Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, Montana State Library Collection Development Policy Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, Montana State Library: Includes a section on weeding items in school library collections. (Weeding) http://msl.state.mt.us/slr/cmpolsch.html Materials De-selection Policy Materials De-selection Policy: Policy approved by the Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) Public Library Board. (Weeding) http://www.hpl.hamilton.on.ca/Info/Policies/deselect.shtml Beloit Public Library Wisconsin Weeding Policy Beloit Public Library Wisconsin Weeding Policy: Provides a copy of this libraries weeding policy. (Weeding) http://als.lib.wi.us/BPL/discpol.htm Evergreen State College Archives Mission Statement/Policy Evergreen State College Archives Mission Statement/Policy: Includes a section on the archives de-accession policy. (Weeding) http://www.evergreen.edu/library/ARCHWWW/Policy.htm Seven Guidelines for Weeding Seven Guidelines for Weeding: Provides seven basic principles for those new to the weeding process. (Weeding) http://www.sbac.edu/%7Emedia/guid_weeding.html Overbooked: Weeding the Fiction Collection Overbooked: Weeding the Fiction Collection: 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 (Weeding) http://www.overbooked.org/weeding.html Weeding the Library Media Center Collections Weeding the Library Media Center Collections: 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 (Weeding) http://www.iema-ia.org/IEMA209.html