American Libraries - Weeding without Worry: Transparency and communication help ease weeding woes
The New Yorker - Weeding the Worst Library Books
Library Journal - The Art of Weeding | Collection Management
Awful Library Books - Why We Weed
PLA - Collections Management Resources
TX State Library - CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries
ALA - Weeding Library Collections: A Selected Annotated Bibliography for Library Collection Evaluation
ALCTS - Culling Your Collection: The Fine Art of Weeding: An ALCTS webcast (free)
Recycled Reads - Sprouting Green Weeding Practices: Web-Based Training
Endnotes - Greening the Library: Collection Development Decisions
OCLC - Weeding and deselection bibliography
Weeding Conflicts in the News
- A fictional character was concocted by two employees at a Central Florida library, complete with a false address and driver's license number. (Panama City Herald)
- Bracebridge library cuts books due to space issues (Muskogaregion.com)
- Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles (BoingBoing)
- Union members, librarian protest alleged firing of library staff (Daily Californian)
- Berkeley Library Chief Quits Amid Furor Over Book ‘Weeding’ (KQED)
- Librarians furious as Berkeley tosses thousands of books (SFGate)
- Is Washoe library getting rid of thousands of books? (Reno Gazette-Journal)
- War of words: Book purge called necessary, but pains Chattanooga Public Library supporters (Times Free Press)
- Accelerated pace of Kansas City Public Library’s book-culling process upsets volunteers (The Kansas City Star)
- Library director says mistake was made in book 'weeding' (The News-Gazette)
- Books in Dumpsters Spark Debate on Future of Fairfax County, VA Libraries (Library Journal)
- ...and we could go on, but you get the idea.
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