Weed of the Month January 99

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

Good afternoon fellow LM_NETters!

The Weed of the Month web pages on January's topic of Holidays have been
posted (finally!) at the following URL:
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

Now that the holiday rush is over, this is the perfect time to calmly
reevaluate this section of the collection.  Are your best-loved holiday
books tattered and ready to be replaced?  Are your holiday books and AV
items reflecting the ethnic diversity of today's children?

The SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club is an effort to help provide School
Library Media Specialists with guidelines and suggestions for weeding
their collections a little at a time as well as for adding quality
materials. Included are sections on how to get started, the rationale
for weeding a topic area, criteria to consider, titles to consider for
weeding and titles to consider when replacing outdated materials. These
suggested lists are neither comprehensive nor authoritative.  You may
agree or disagree with some of the titles. That's fine! You may have a
more recent edition or version of a title that you would never consider
for weeding. Remember that weeding is always subject to your
professional judgment because you know your students and your curriculum.

When you have examined your school's Holiday collection and found titles
to weed, please email me at the address below and we will add them to
the list (without your name!). The same goes for terrific new Holiday
titles (or new versions of beloved classic titles) you would like others
to discover. Please also share your
thoughts on weeding the Holiday collection with your fellow lm_netters!

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It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are
good or not. — Lucius Annaeus SENECA (3 B.C.-65 A.D.)

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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