HIT: weeding web sites

[Amy Hailey <amybhailey@BELLSOUTH.NET>]

I asked a few days ago for web sites to gather information to support weeding in a 
presentation that I was to make to PTA.  My assistant principal is outraged at the 
information that I presented showing how out of date our collection is.  She 
currently will not speak to myself or the principal, who is the person that asked 
me to do the presentation in the first place.  The assistant principal, even after 
hearing the information (gathered through Follet's collection analysis... it is 
free and easy to do) and other facts that I compiled, does not think we should 
discard any books.  "These books have been circulating and there is no reason to 
throw them out now."  One book I picked up fell into 3 parts.  I don't have enough 
tape and glue to put it back together.  Needless to say the response from her is 
not supportive, and tension is in the air as the collection gets more dated. I 
should say I am new to this school this year and am just walking into a neglected 
media center wit!
 h no program.  I have not created the mess, and it makes me sad that others in the 
school before me let it get to the state it is in.

Here are the web sites that you sent to me:

http://www.iema-ia.org/IEMA209.html
(State of Iowa site)

http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed
(state of Florida site)

http://www.simmons.edu/resources/libraries/gslis/colldev/weeding.html
(Simmons College site)

www.alastore.ala.org/img/169.pdf

Thanks,

Amy Hailey

Amy Hailey, Media Specialist
Addison Elementary School
3055 Ebenezer Road
Marietta, GA 30055
amybhailey@bellsouth.net

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