In this book, first published in 1986, experts from the various specialties describe the weeding process in corporate, academic, and university libraries. Factors affecting the weeding of materials - lack of space, a desire to place materials in a more suitable library, changing goals of the library - are explored. Discussions concerning the choices for the disposal of items are insightful and innovative.
1. Weeding in a Corporate Library as Part of a Collection Maintenance
Program Richard P. Hulser
2. Weeding Collections in an Academic Library
System: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jay K. Lucker, Kate S. Herzog
and Sydney J. Owens
3. Journal Deselection: A Literature Review and an
Application Judith A. Segal
4. Journal Weeding in Relation to Declining
Faculty Member Publishing Tony Stankus
5. Original Language, Non-English
Journals: Weeding Them and Holding Them Virgil P. Diodato
6. Records
Management in an Architectural Firm: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Catherine R.
Burke Special Paper
7. Science Periodicals in a System-Wide OCLC Conversion
Project: Purdue University Martha J. Bailey
8. Sci-Tech Collections Tony
Stankus, Editor
9. Malnutrition and Disease in the Third World: Sources and
Reliability of the Statistics Frank R. Kellerman
10. New Reference Works in
Science and Technology Robert G. Krupp, Editor
11. Sci-Tech Online Ellen
Nagle, Editor
12. Sci-Tech in Review Suzanne Fedunok, Editor