Oh, I agree wholeheartedly with Ed's suggestion. The medium stays the
same, but the message changes, so to speak. Look how Little Black Sambo
and Tom Sawyer are used today to illustrate a different message. I have
some old etiquette books that are *hilarious* by today's standards...and
there's one on planning a wedding that's equally thought-provoking. I'd
save anything along this line, and like you say, just put them into some
other category.
"If Librarians ruled the world, Reading would be a Varsity sport."
Reggie Buresh, Librarian
Mahtomedi High School
8000 75th St. N.
Mahtomedi, MN 55115-1795
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Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:26 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Weeding justification
Hello,
I wanted to send out a cautionary note regarding weeding
your =
collection of all "sexist, racist, inaccurate" or outdated materials. =
At a certain point, these may become primary resources. I once had a =
book on marraige from the 1950's. I thought that I kept it, but I don't
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see it on the shelf anymore. It was a superb source of showing what was
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expected of women in that era. If you have a great number of item of =
this type, you might need to establish a separate category of some sort.
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Any thoughts on this subject?
Ed Nizalowski, SMS
Newark Valley High School
Newark Valley, NY
enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org
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> Doug Johnson has written the best I have seen. "Weed", in Library =
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> Connection, Aug 2003. The Head for the Edge column. Major points: =
"Rids
> your collections of sexist, racist and just plain inaccurate =
materials",
> "Makes the good stuff easier to find and more appealing", and very
> importantly "Sends the message that the library may not be adequately
> funded."
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> It is available through Ebsco's Prof Dev collection.
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> He has a website (http://www.doug-johnson.com/).
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> Robert Eiffert, Librarian
> Pacific Middle School
> Evergreen SD 114 Vancouver WA
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Terri Chalaturnyk
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:59 AM
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> I'm looking for a well written short article that I can pass out to =
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> Terri Chalaturnyk
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