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Project update, May 14, 2013
The faculty review of the Round 3 withdrawal candidate lists ended on March 31—once again thanks to all of you who took the time to review the lists! By now you’re familiar with the schedule; here’s what will happen when: … Continue reading
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If you missed the latest A(T)R …
… you didn’t! Here is the14-minute presentation: (Click on ‘Start Prezi,’ then the ‘play’ icon in the bottom, left-hand corner to play the presentation from beginning to end.)
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UPDATE: Rounds 2, 3 – and 4
First the bad news: As of January, 2013, we have withdrawn 21,398 volumes. This is about a third of the way to our 60,000-volume withdrawal target. Since the total number of Round 3 withdrawal candidates is only 36,018, this is … Continue reading
The other side of the coin …
In the summer of 2011 we worked with Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) to develop criteria for the withdrawal candidates and compile lists of books that meet these criteria. But we were also interested in identifying books that we should retain. … Continue reading
A Platonic dilemma …
This past winter the library hired Melissa Behney, a reference librarian with extensive experience in academic libraries, to assist with the weeding project. Melissa has helped us in a variety of ways, but she has truly done yeoman’s service in … Continue reading
Working in the withdrawal candidate lists
We have received a few questions about how to work with the withdrawal candidate lists; here are some tips: ‘Keep this copy’ v. ‘Keep an edition’: You have two options for marking a book for retention. ‘Keep this copy’ indicates … Continue reading
Round 1 ends; Round 2 begins …
The Round 1 withdrawal candidate lists (for books with call numbers beginning with A – G) were closed for faculty review on May 31. Librarians are just completing their final review of the lists this week. We will then delete … Continue reading
Round 1 winding down …
As you know, the deadline for faculty to review and mark the Round 1 withdrawal candidate lists is the end of this month. Round 1 includes lists of books with call numbers beginning A – G. What happens next (Round … Continue reading
Update: April 10, 2012
At the April faculty meeting last week I did a short presentation on the status of the weeding project. Here is a summary of the presentation and of the questions following it: In the past several months we have gotten … Continue reading
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Weeding: It’s not just for monographs …
UPDATE, April 2, 2012: Thank you to everyone who responded! Because of the concerns you expressed about the usability of the online versions of many of these titles, we have decided to retain several of them (see below for indications … Continue reading
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