Weeding
Before a redesign can happen the space needs to be cleaned up in order to see what we actually have and need to continue to service our patrons.
Below is the general collection analysis of the collection as of Dec 2, 2010. Some weeding had already started before this date.
Date of Analysis: 02-Dec-2010 12:27:53
File Uploaded: 02-Dec-2010 09:42:19
Uploaded File Name: export1201
Circulation System: Follett Circulation Plus
Data Integrity: Good: 99.67% holdings recognized
# of Records: 24059
# of Holdings: 25727
Recognized Call Numbers: 25643
Average Age: 1983
Enrollment: 2400
Items per Student: 10.68
Recommended Items per Student: 15
Guidelines to weeding was used in deciding which titles to weed. Click here to view document.
Click here to see the entire analysis conducted by Follett in December 2010
We had a chuckle regarding some of the books that were still in the collection. School libraries are not museums. The collection should reflect the curriculum as well as the interests of the students and faculty. Examples of books that have outlived their usefulness include Soviet Union, a country that no longer exists, The Future of the Family, written in 1960 and Future Food, predictions regarding food for the year 2000.
The process of weeding is time and labor consuming. At first, I would run reports by decades starting at 1940 and pulling books with copyright dates in the range selected. That took a good deal of time. Later, I settled on going through section by section and pulling books that by condition or title was outdated. Each day there was a new pile of books waiting to be recycled. The process was repeated with reference and videos.
