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- Explains why weeding is important for a healthy library, demonstrating that a vibrant collection leads to robust circulation, which in turn affects library budgets
- Walks readers through a library s shelves by Dewey area, with recommended weeding criteria and call-outs in each area for the different considerations of large collections and smaller collections
- Features a chapter addressing reference, media, magazines and newspapers, e-books, and other special materials
- Shows how a solid collection development plan uses weeding as an ongoing process, making it less stressful and more productive
- Offers guidance for determining how to delegate responsibility for weeding, plus pointers for getting experienced staff on board
- Gives advice for educating the community about the process, how to head off PR disasters, and what to do with weeded materials
- Includes a dozen sample collection development plans, easily adaptable to suit a librarys individual needs
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Rebecca Vnuk has a high profile in the library community as a librarian, consultant, workshop presenter, speaker, writer, and blogger. She is currently best known as Editor, Reference and Collection Management, at Booklist, and as the co-creator of the popular blog Shelf Renewal. Her most recent library position was as Adult Services Director at the Glen Ellyn (IL) Public Library. She has been widely recognized for her contributions to the field. In 2008, she was Library Journals Fiction Reviewer of the Year, and in 2010 she received the Public Library Associations Allie Beth Martin Award for excellence in Readers Advisory and was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Vnuk is the author of Read On... Womens Fiction (2009) and Womens Fiction Authors: A Research Guide (2009), and co-author (with Nanette Donohue) of Womens Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (2013). She has spoken at conferences and presented workshops extensively; her panels are among the most popular at ALA Annual and Public Library Association meetings.
2015 by the American Library Association
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ISBN: 978-0-8389-1327-7 (paper)
ISBN: 978-0-8389-1361-1 (PDF)
ISBN: 978-0-8389-1362-8 (ePub)
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Vnuk, Rebecca.
The weeding handbook : a shelf-by-shelf guide / Rebecca Vnuk.
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ISBN 978-0-8389-1327-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Discarding of books, periodicals, etc.Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Collection development (Libraries)United StatesPolicy statements. 3. Public librariesCollection developmentUnited States. I. Title.
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I MUST ACKNOWLEDGE that this book and the Weeding Tips columns in Booklist owe a great debt to CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries. This free publication, originated by Joseph P. Segal and Belinda Boon of the Texas State Library and Archives and updated by Jeanette Larson, is the true bible of weeding and should be obtained and read by every staff member involved in weeding collections. The practical advice in the manual is invaluable, and the shelf-by-shelf layout was a major inspiration for the original Weeding Tips columns.
Written and performed by Ricki Nordmeyer, Jon Kadus, and Rebecca Vnuk, for the 2000 ALA Annual Conference workshop presented by Merle Jacob, Weeding the Fiction Collection: Or, Should I Dump Peyton Place?
The three Weeders enter the stage with various expressions of agony on their faces and approach a table with several books on it. They have dust masks, latex gloves, a feather duster, and printouts with them.
RICKI. Come on, come on, the sooner we do this the sooner itll be over!
JON, looking at his watch. What time is it?
REBECCA. What else do you have to do?
JON. I select these materials. Im behind on my journals.
RICKI. We have NO ROOM! You cant purchase more books if there is no space for them.
JON. Theres an idea. Why dont they just read the old ones?
REBECCA. Ooh. Look at them. These books are so dirty!
JON. Where? Which One? I must have missed that!
REBECCA. Not that kind of dirty.
RICKI. Thats why I brought these things. (Distributes masks and gloves; waves around her feather duster.) Well clean as we go.
JON. Are these latex? I wont go into prophylactic shock, will I?
REBECCA. Thats anaphylactic shock. Little chance of either!
RICKI. OK, OK. Lets get started. Whats first?
REBECCA. Take Leave and Go by Karel Schoeman. This is like new.
RICKI. Its not in Fiction Catalog. When did it last go out?
REBECCA, checking her printout. Uh, its never gone out.
JON. I know I wouldnt have bought it without a great review.
RICKI. Its never gone out!
REBECCA. What if they make it into a movie? Ive heard rumors that Spielberg and Gibson want to do this.
RICKI. OK, OK, well keep it.
JON. What about this one? Two Little Misogynists by Carl Spitteler. Its not in very good shape.
REBECCA. It hasnt gone out since 1987.
RICKI. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919. We cant discard that, its an award winner! I know, maybe well put it on a display.
JON, under his breath. Of oldy-moldy translations?
REBECCA. OK, we have three copies of Jean Paul Sartres The Age of Reason. Can we withdraw this copy?
RICKI. Hes definitely in Fiction Catalog.
JON. You can never have enough of Sartre!
RICKI. What are the chances of three people in this town wanting this at the same time?
JON. You can never have enough of Sartre!
RICKI. OK, OK... What about The Age of Murderous Snailblasters by George Salter? Its not in Fiction Catalog and Ive never heard of the author.
REBECCA. Its never gone out.
JON. Wait a minute! Look at this bookplate.
RICKI. Donated by Hester Stoopover. AGGH!!! The Mayors wife!
JOHN. You know, I think I pulled this and declared it missing a while back.
REBECCA. She has a stack of them. She just re-donated it.
REBECCA, RICKI and JON, in unison. KEEP.
RICKI: Mayday by Thomas Block. This was published in 1979.
REBECCA. I was in kindergarten then.
(Ricki and Jon roll eyes.)
JON. What time is it? Are we almost done?
REBECCA. What is it? You got a date or something?
JON. As a matter of fact I do.
REBECCA. That must be the first time SINCE I was in kindergarten.
RICKI. All right, all right, back to business here. We have not made any headway, and Im getting a lot of pressure to do something about these cramped shelves. I think we can pull Mayday. Has it ever gone out?
REBECCA. Eighty-two times. It was just returned last week.
JON. Well, that settles that one.
RICKI. Well, I know well get rid of this one with the puke-brown library binding... The Women at the Pump by Knut Hamsun. Its wretched!
JON, sputtering. (Makes up a Norwegian title.) $#@#$% by Hamsun?? Why, my mother read that to me while I sat on her knee. She would roll over in her grave if she knew I had a part in throwing $#@#$% away. Look! It says its one of the Foreign Classical Romances right here on the cover.
RICKI. But its only volume 1...
JON. Then they could get started!!! You just cant throw this away. Why...
RICKI and REBECCA, in unison. KEEP.
REBECCA. We have twenty-three books by James Fenimore Cooper, but it looks like the only three that have ever circulated are The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Pathfinder.
RICKI and JON . But its Cooper, one of the greatest American authors.
REBECCA. But no one is reading them or cares!
RICKI and JON, in unison. JAMES. FENNIMORE. COOPER.
(The two point to the table as Rebecca sadly returns the book to the pile.)
RICKI. Now for a change of pace: We seem to have 1,045 copies of Danielle Steels books. She is coming out with them monthly now.
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