Re: [LM_NET] December (and Final) Weed-of-the-Month

[Paula Yohe <paula_yohe@YAHOO.COM>]

I hate to see this go --
  One of the best sites --
  Thanks for all of the hard work
  Paula
  

Donna Baumbach <baumbach@MAIL.UCF.EDU> wrote:
  Greetings, Fellow LM_NETters,

The Weed of the Month topic for December is: Space & Astronomy

The need to weed the topics of Space and Astronomy prompted the 
beginning of the Weed of the Month program by the SUNLINK Project in 
1997. A library media specialist sent a posting to LM_NET after 
discovering that her collection contained a copy of "Tomorrow the Moon," 
published in 1959. But it was 1997, and Neil Armstrong had first walked 
on the moon years earlier--in 1969! A plea went out to all library media 
specialists to weed their space and astronomy collections. And that 
topic became the first Weed of the Month in September 1997.

If you last concentrated on weeding that subject in 1997, you need to do 
it again! Much has changed in world space programs since the late 1990s. 
NASA is again planning on going to the moon — but the projected return 
flight is 2018! That 1959 copy of "Tomorrow the Moon" (and others like 
it) is doubly dangerous now.

For information on criteria, a rationale, suggested titles to consider 
for weeding, and titles to consider for purchase, go to this section of 
the SUNLINK web site:

http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

*****Please Note: We end Weed of the Month as it began 8 years ago, with 
the topic of space and astronomy. Yes, after a long run--over 8 
years--SUNLINK is ending the Weed of the Month feature this month. Since 
September 1997, SUNLINK has provided guidance for weeding a new topic 
each month during the school year. We also provided suggested titles to 
consider for weeding as well as for adding to the collection.

We'd like to thank the many LM_NET members who throughout the years have 
suggested weeding topics, titles to reconsider, titles to add, and 
reported titles they found that surprised (and appalled) them! Special 
thanks to the SUNLINK staff who took this on as a labor of love for all 
these years--as usual, going above and beyond for school library media 
specialists: Linda Miller, Carol McWilliams, John Prevosk, Kathy Katz, 
Matt Renfroe, Debbie Culp and Leann Karschner. Thanks to the Florida 
Department of Education for allowing us the time to research and compile 
the information and to share it with LM_NET.

We appreciate your support of Weed of the Month! Don’t despair! The Weed 
of the Month Archive has been recently redesigned on our website with 
the topics arranged by Dewey number. Remember that this *IS* an archive 
so some content may be dated. Visit it at 
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/archive/archive.html.
And watch for a new book from ALA Editions inspired by Weed of the Month 
sometime in 2006.

Happy Holidays from all of us at SUNLINK. It has been a pleasure working 
with you! We wish you weed-free, up-to-date collections!!!

Donna Baumbach for the SUNLINK Staff
sunlink@firn.edu
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

SUNLINK - Florida's K-12 library union database, now with almost 1.6 
million titles from 2511 schools (K-12) in 65 districts in the state of 
Florida, over 21,000 web sites and over 375,000 book cover images. 
Coming soon: cataloged digital images!

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