This book, first published in 1986, describes the weeding process in 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.
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