GEN: Weed of the Month web pages

[Carol McWilliams <mcwillia_c@popmail.firn.edu>]

Greetings fellow LM_NETters!

The Weed of the Month web pages on December's topic of Careers have been

posted at the following URL:
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

Once again, the SUNLINK staff has attempted to identify titles that
should be critically examined with an eye toward weeding them and
replacing them with more current materials.  This list is not intended
to be the final authority on this topic, but merely a good place to
start when examining your library's collection on Careers.

Although the topic of Careers was announced to LM_NET on 1 December, we
received no suggestions about titles to be weeded or items to consider
when replacing obsolete items. All titles on the list were taken from
the SUNLINK union database of library materials in Florida K-12 schools.

During the same time period, Deborah Stafford of Gen. H. H. Arnold High
School in Germany was also seeking information on career materials, and
she posted an excellent hit on the topic.  See the LM_NET archives for
her hit.

If you have examined your school's Career collection and found an awful
title (outdated, stereotyped, biased) please email me at the address
below and we will add it to the list (without your name!).  The same
goes for terrific new titles you would like others to discover.

Be sure to check the comments from LM_NETters recently added to the
Native American, Africa and Europe pages.  Their expertise and
sensitivity to what we should look for in our collections adds a very
special dimension to this project.  Thanks to all who gave us permission

to quote their comments!
--
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed--Francis Bacon...and some should just be weeded!--Linda Miller

Carol McWilliams
mcwillia_c@popmail.firn.edu
Assistant director, SUNLINK
Florida's K-12 Library Union Database
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu

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