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I found this dated 2016 from *Booklist*, where the "weeding" columnist
Veronica Vnuk turns her column over to a guest columnist Erin Downey
Howerton ("Erin Downey Howerton is Children’s Manager at Wichita Public
Library and a*Booklist *Advisory Board member. She’s also a champion
weeder, so when she told me she was doing a program on weeding for a local
library system, I jumped at the opportunity to have her as a guest
columnist for “Weeding Tips.” Take it away, Erin!")

http://www.booklistonline.com/Weeding-Tips-Youth-Edition-Erin-Downey-Howerton/pid=8163709

I have some heavy weeding to do so I found it interesting.  Also, if you
have Destiny as your OPAC, run your bottom 50 titles report until you're
satisfied with what appears for weeding.  Another also - if you order
through Follett, run your collection through the Titlewise Collection
Analysis.  Very helpful since it digs into your Dewey to find outdated
books.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> There are a number of other things out there on weeding as well.  I just
> googled ALA weeding (doing just what we tell our students not to do) and
> came up with some hits.  In addition to the one I sent before, here are
> some others:
>
> An annotated bibliography from the ALA about weeding. Some of the entries
> include links.  This is from 2006, so some of the info may be outdated.
> http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=libraryfactsheet&
> Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=75744
>
> A very long document (93 pages) from the Texas State Library and Archives
> Commission entitled *CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries* from
> 2008.
> https://www.tsl.texas.gov/sites/default/files/public/tslac/ld/pubs/crew/
> crewmethod08.pdf
>
> And then this page, with lots of links, including ones on weeding, from a
> site called Resources for School Librarians, maintained by Linda Bertland.
> http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/coldev2.html
>
> John Moranski
> Librarian
> Springfield High School
> Springfield, IL
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Can someone point me to a page on ALA's website guidelines for weeding?
>>
>> I can only find them pointing to books they sell.
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>> --
>> Lori McGreal
>> Library Media Specialist
>> Lincoln Hall Middle School
>> 6950 N. East Prairie Road
>> Lincolnwood, IL 60712
>> Phone: 847-745-3843
>> lmcgreal at sd74.org
>>
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