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In the final installment of “The Five W’s of Weeding”, we tackle the non-W question of HOW? Weeding sometimes seems like an exhausting task. How do we do things to make them easier on ourselves? Once again, I turn to some ideas found in the old pamphlets where I got the idea for this series from (see Sources of Interest below).
Weeding the Library asks two very important how questions: How should the books be sorted?” and “How should discarded materials be treated?” The answers to these questions from this particular pamphlet are pretty outdated, but there are still a couple of good pieces of information. For example, during the weeding process, you can sort books while you are actively pulling books to discard, by setting aside books that you see which need mending or cleaning and setting books aside that you want to keep but need to be rebound (if that is a thing your library still does) or put into storage (again, assuming your library has an area to store books that are valuable to the library but infrequently used).
This pamphlet also includes ideas for non-fiction weeding, which are better explained in Weeding the Collection, which is similar information to what the CREW Method utilizes. The second how question talks about the different collections and how to discard them, some of which is very outdated and might seem sacrilegious to some.
Sources of interest:
“Weeding the Library: Suggestions for the Guidance of Librarians of Small Libraries.” Wisconsin Free Library Commission; Madison, 1949.
“Weeding the Collection.” Division for Library Services, Bureau of Public and Cooperative Library Services, 1977.
Please stop here for the rest of this series (links go live as they are published monthly):
The Five W's of Weeding, Part 1 - Why
The Five W's of Weeding, Part 2 - Where and When
The Five W's of Weeding, Part 3 - Who
The Five W's of Weeding, Part 4 - What
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