Less is more: a practical guide to weeding school library collections" presents the following content: Chapter 1 includes a general rationale for weeding school library media collections and many of the excuses for not weeding that we’ve encountered along the way. Chapter 2 describes general weeding guidelines and offers helpful hints for those about to undertake a weeding project of any size, and chapter 3 describes where to start (Anywhere! Just start!) and provides some information about how the weeding topics in chapter 4 are organized. Chapter 4 is really the heart of the book, and it includes seventy-one weeding topics. Chapter 5 describes general ways to use library automation systems in weeding and collection development, and chapter 6 talks about what to do—and what not to do—with the items you’ve weeded as well as the general housekeeping required to keep your records as accurate and up to date as your collection. |
