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Practical advice for weeding in small academic libraries

Practical advice for weeding in small academic libraries – The purpose of this paper is to present information on how to organize and carry out a weeding project in an academic library.Design/methodology/approach – Describes how the weeding project was organized and its various phases.Findings – Argues that weeding is appropriate in small, academic non‐research libraries and discusses a methodology for approaching it.Originality/value – Provides the academic librarian with a road map as to how to handle a weeding project. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Collection Building Emerald Publishing

Practical advice for weeding in small academic libraries

Collection Building , Volume 26 (3): 4 – Jul 10, 2007

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
0160-4953
DOI
10.1108/01604950710761643
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Abstract

– The purpose of this paper is to present information on how to organize and carry out a weeding project in an academic library.Design/methodology/approach – Describes how the weeding project was organized and its various phases.Findings – Argues that weeding is appropriate in small, academic non‐research libraries and discusses a methodology for approaching it.Originality/value – Provides the academic librarian with a road map as to how to handle a weeding project.

Journal

Collection BuildingEmerald Publishing

Published: Jul 10, 2007

Keywords: Academic libraries; Collections management; Stock control; Stock revision

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