Weeding Tips
Discussions among those of us on the new Circulation System Pilot suggest that perhaps it would be useful to share some tips on Weeding Your Collection.
- The PDF files below originate from a series that was posted on Booklist over the last couple of years.
- Since I came back and took over full-time I've been going through the collection section by section, weeding, refreshing and generally getting a grip on what we have. So far I'm about halfway through.
- I've found these notes to be really helpful guidelines as I've been going through the collection.
The files are posted in the following order:
The files will contain hyperlinks which may or may not work... I'm not going back and re-editing the files from scratch.
- Introduction to Weeding (March 2012)
- 000's 100's 200's (April 2012)
- 300's (June 2012)
- 400's 500's (August 2012)
- 600's (October 2012)
- 700's (November 2012)
- 800's and Fiction (January 2013)
- 900's (February 2013)
- Weeding Tips: FAQ (April 2013)
- Weeding Tips: FAQ 2 (May 2013)
- Tackling Fiction (May 2014)
- What Not to Keep (November 2013)
- Tales from the Front (June 2013)
- Weeding Gone Wrong (September 2013)
The files will contain hyperlinks which may or may not work... I'm not going back and re-editing the files from scratch.
- These articles were pulled from online when published in (free) BookList newsletters.
- They are only available as archived files (with fully functional hyperlinks) if you actually subscribe to BookList (I don't... free is fine!).