Directory of Weeding Resources

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Category for sites relating to the weeding (the deselection) of materials from a library collection.

Resources in This Category

• Collection Development Policy Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, Montana State Library

  http://msl.mt.gov/slr/cmpolsch.html
  Includes a section on weeding items in school library collections.

• CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries

  https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ld/pubs/crew/index.html
  Book covering various quality control processes for different type of resources: children's materials, reference collections, non-printed media, e-books. Contains sections for working with computers, and guidelines by dewey class. Revised and Updated by Jeanette Larson.

• Evergreen State College Archives Mission Statement/Policy

  http://archives.evergreen.edu/homepage/Policyfrm.htm
  Includes a section on the archives de-accession policy.

• Library Success: Weeding Library Collections

  http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Weeding_Library_Collections
  Ideas for disposing of weeded and/or used books, and successful models and comments.

• Sustainable Collection Services: Deselection Knowledge-Base: Library Weeding

  http://sustainablecollections.com/deselection-kb/
  Citations and resources on weeding and de-selection: case studies, news, opinion, policies, cost, issues, collections, theory and practice.

• Weeding your library's collection

  http://lili.org/forlibs/ce/able/course4/02objectives.htm
  Course is designed for members of the library community who do not have formal library training

 

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