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ALCTS e-Forum: The Weeding Planner: Managing Massive Weeding Projects

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ALCTS e-Forum: The Weeding Planner: Managing Massive Weeding Projects

May 2-3, 2017

Moderated by Cristina Caminita and Andrea Hebert

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:

Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

As libraries transition away from spaces designed to store and organize physical collections to spaces designed to support the needs of researchers, students, and communities, library professionals will need to engage in physical collection weeding projects. Although each weeding project will be unique, approaching weeding projects from a project management perspective can structure what can sometimes feel like an overwhelming undertaking. Project management requires leaders and participants to identify weeding project goals and objectives, to map roles and duties to phases of the project, to develop project timelines and prioritize milestones, to anticipate challenges and setbacks, and to deliver on the project in a timely manner.

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Time for spring cleaning yet? Let’s weed!

Weeding the lettuce (798138529)

I follow a bunch of library-related listserves, and it’s a great way to keep up with the discussions happening all across the profession. Recently, there was an extended discussion from a newbie library person about weeding a collection in a small library.

This seemed like an issue that would apply to many of our libraries here in CMLE; so as we start to think about spring and cleaning (or “still stuck inside to escape the cold for a few more weeks” and cleaning), it seemed like a good time for us to also talk about weeding!

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Which books are weeds?

SeedlingI have got gardening on the brain, do you? It is exciting to see anything green push up through the dirt, even a weed! But soon enough, we know that for the sake of the garden, those weeds have to go. So goes it with our library collections too. As we remove the clutter, the truly good content can breathe, can shine through more brightly. This is the time of year when many of our readers are doing inventory and weeding collections, so this post seems timely. The key question always is….which books are weeds, and many a librarian are quite tortured by it! Deep down, I think librarians absolutely know something needs to be weeded, they just need absolution for discarding any book. In many cases, the act of discarding is painful, and fraught with indecision. Some people simply cannot do it!

If you have been reading our blog for some time, you have heard of Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, two light-hearted Michigan librarians best known for their Awful Library Books blog.  They also offer Advice to Reluctant Weeders Here. You might want to also check out their Hurdles to Weeding.

Good to go, or do you need to go deeper? Other resources that may help include:

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Free Webinar: Weeding Your Fiction Collection
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Free Booklist presentation!

Weeding Tips: Tackling Fiction
Fiction is one of the more daunting weeding projects. After all, it can be difficult to remain objective when it comes to fiction, and the helpful rules for weeding nonfiction, based on outdated or superseded information, don’t apply here. Join us for this free, hour-long webinar with Booklist Reference and Collection Management editor Rebecca Vnuk, who will talk about the many variables of weeding adult fiction, and Simmons College associate professor Amy Pattee, who will cover youth and YA fiction. Representatives from our sponsor, collectionHQ, will showcase how their transfer tool can identify titles that can be transferred between collections to maximize weeding efforts.Can’t make the date? Register anyway so a link to the video archive of this webinar can be e-mailed to you after the event.Please note: As a webinar registrant, you will receive follow-up correspondence from Booklist Publications and may receive other special offers from our sponsors. We will not sell your e-mail to outside parties, although we may share it with other similar publications of the ALA. If the sponsors choose to communicate with you by e-mail, they are obligated to provide you with an opportunity to opt-out from future e-mails in compliance with the CAN-SPAM act of 2003.

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Tuesday, March 25

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Booklist Webinars About Makerspaces & Weeding

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Image retrieved from the Booklist site

On October 8th at 1 pm, Booklist is offering a free webinar called, Creating A Makerspace Culture.  During this webinar you will have the opportunity to hear from other libraries about how they were able to cultivate successful makerspace environments. Click here for additional information and the registration link.

Tip: If you are unfamiliar with the concept behind “makerspaces”, click here to learn more.

Second Webinar:

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CMLE intended on posting a link to another free webinar titled, What Not to Weed presented on Thursday, October 3rd. However, this webinar has reached its maximum capacity for participants. That being said, if you would still like to view the session, Booklist is offering a free, archived video on October 16th. If you would like a link to the video sent to your email, click here to sign-up.