The weeding handbook : a shelf-by-shelf guide / Rebecca Vnuk, Booklist collection management editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vnuk, Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discarding of books, periodicals, etc--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Discarding of books, periodicals, etc.

Collection development (Libraries)--Policy statements.

Collection development (Libraries).

Collection development (Libraries)--United States.

Public libraries--Collection development--United States.

Public libraries.

Public libraries--Collection development.

United States.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xix, 196 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : ALA Editions, An imprint of the American Library Association, 2015.

Summary:

The very word can throw terror into a librarian's heart, but "weeding" is an essential part of a balanced collection maintenance program. Vnuk shows that, since a library is an ever-changing organism, weeding can help it to thrive. She stresses the importance of looking at each section as a separate entity with its own requirements, and that each library must generate standards to condition and shelf space based on their own needs.

Contents:

The basics

Shelf by shelf, 000, 100, 200

Shelf-by-shelf, 300s

Shelf by shelf, 400s and 500s

Shelf by shelf, 600s

Shelf by shelf, 700s

Shelf by shelf, 800s and fiction

Shelf by shelf, 900s and biography

Other areas of the collection

Special considerations for youth collections

Weeding gone wrong

The importance of a collection development plan

Appendix A. Public: Morton Grove Public Library, IL

Appendix B. Public: La Grange Public Library, IL

Appendix C. Public: Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, MA

Appendix D. Public: Memorial Hall Library, Andover, MA

Appendix E. Public: Glen Ellyn Public Library, IL

Appendix F. Public: Chicago Public Library, IL

Appendix G. Public: Seattle Public Library, WA

Appendix H. Academic: Columbia University, NY

Appendix I. Academic: Emmanuel d'Alzon Library, Assumption College, Worcester, MA

Appendix J. School media center: Baltimore County Public Schools, Baltimore, MD

Appendix K. School media center: Georgetown Independent School District, Georgetown, TX.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780838913277

083891327X

OCLC:

908107263