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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:32:43 -0400
From: Ramona Grimsley (Berkeley Co Library) <grimsley_at_berkeley.lib.sc.us>
Subject: RE - Guides for Weeding (Public Libraries)
Berkeley County Library in South Carolina uses _Gwinnett County Public
Library. Weeding Guidelines_
Public Library Association, 1998. ISBN: 083898004X.
Ramona Grimsley
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:15:16 -0400
From: Kathryn Boyd (Minneapolis PL) <KEBoyd_at_mplib.org>
Subject: RE - Guides for Weeding (Public Libraries)
I've found the Gwinnett County Public Library Weeding manual to be a
good place to start. Latest edition is 2002.
We've also used the Kansas City Public Library Collection Development
Policy http://www.kclibrary.org/fileuploads/coll_dev.pdf to assign
collection levels (1 = popular, 2= working collection, 3 = resource
collection, etc.) to various parts of the collection to help us
determine what the scope of collection development and weeding should
be.
-Kathy Boyd
Coordinator of Collection Management
Minneapolis Public Library
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:27:50 -0400
From: Barbara Rittinger (Arlington, VA PL) <Brittinger_at_arlingtonva.us>
Subject: Guides for Weeding (Public Libraries)
This request is directed primarily to Public Libraries. Arlington Public
Library is a medium size,
urban library serving a day time population of just over 400,000 and an
evening populations of
200,000 plus. We have one main library and seven neighborhood branches.
When weeding the
collection, we are using _The Reader's Adviser_ 14^th edition as one of
our guides. Published in
1994, it is quite out of date now. What resources do other public
libraries use to determine
which titles should be retained in the collection, regardless of how
infrequently they circulate?
We appreciate your willingness to share you expertize and experience.
Barbara Rittinger
Arlington Public Library
703-228-5997
brittinger_at_arlingtonva.us
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