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Weeding

Links

Baltimore County Public Schools: Criteria for Selection of Library Media Materials

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/office/admin/selection.html

Includes a section about weeding media materials.

Collection Development Policy Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, Montana State Library

http://msl.state.mt.us/slr/cmpolsch.html

Includes a section on weeding items in school library collections.

Evergreen State College Archives Mission Statement/Policy

http://www.evergreen.edu/library/ARCHWWW/Policy.htm

Includes a section on the archives de-accession policy.

Materials De-selection Policy

http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/LibraryServices/AboutTheLibrary/Policies/MaterialDeselectionPolicy.htm

Policy approved by the Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) Public Library Board.

Seven Guidelines for Weeding

http://www.sbac.edu/~media/guid_weeding.html

Provides seven basic principles for those new to the weeding process.

SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club

http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

The SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club is an effort to help provide Florida's School Library Media Specialists with guidelines and suggestions for weeding their collections a little at a time as well as for adding quality materials.

Weed It!: For an Attractive and Useful Collection

http://www.wmrls.org/services/colldev/weed_it.html

A collection of frequently asked questions (faqs) about weeding: why is it done, what is done with weeded materials. Includes a section "What happened in San Francisco?". Prepared by Karen Klopfer, WMRLS Regional Librarian, Berkshire Subregion.