A process for removing duplicate, damaged, obsolete, or little-used material from a library collection.
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How do you handle lost disks in a multi-disk DVD or CD package?
The question on TV show collection development made me think of another problem with TV series and audio books --
How do you deal with multi-disk packages when there's a single lost or damaged disk?
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Should the average time between technology book weedings be lower?
Technologies change very rapidly over time. This is especially apparent in the rate of publication of new computer/technology books.
It would only be sensible to maintain the library's collection at ...
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How can you get non-library trained people to trust in your weeding?
There are two primary contexts in which this might come up:
A public or school librarian has to earn the trust of a public official, who may be a bureaucrat or politician but has some power over the ...
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What is a good way to sell withdrawn books?
If one does not have a book sale program (e.g. via a "Friends" organization), or one has books that might find a better home and raise more money than at such a sale, are there other viable ways to ...
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What are commonly used and accepted methods to weed a recently developed collection?
In 2010, we moved our Young Adult collection to a new space, during which we weeded it. Within the last two years, the room has filled up quickly as we have expanded the collection but, as is bound to ...
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What do university libraries do to their extremely old books?
For example - books published before the 1950s.
University libraries will continue to purchase more and more books, but there is only so much space that is available in each university libraries. ...
