[LM_NET] Techniques Used in Weeding?

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@FWCDS.ORG>]

I have a great list of reasons TO WEED titles from the library and I'm presenting a 
workshop on "The Need to Weed" in a few weeks.  I was just wondering, however, if 
there were any techniques that any of you used TO weed?  In other words, do you 
find that you close the library to weed as you take inventory?  Do you weed 
throughout the year and choose specific sections to concentrate on each year?  Do 
you weed based upon the subjects being taught heavily (so you can have more 
up-to-date materials added)?

I'm interested in any specific techniques you might use AND any special problems 
that you've found while weeding (in other words, do you find teachers who panic 
when they see the "weeded titles" piled on your carts?  do you give them the old 
titles?  do you pretend to return the title and then pull it later?)

I think the comical "relief" that you can offer in this "serious topic" can help to 
make this more interesting.  

You may respond to me off-list!

Thanks~

~Shonda

Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing 
the impossible."
 ~St. Francis of Assisi
sbrisco@fwcds.org
http://www.fwcds.org/campus/libraries/default.asp

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