[LM_NET] Weeding the 300s

[Anita Beaman <abeaman@ROE53.K12.IL.US>]

I'm at a new school this year, and our 300s desperately need to be weeded due both 
to the age of the books and how full the shelves are. The average publication date 
from this section is 1981.
I've begun weeding, and I'm facing a dilemma.  If I keep to weeding guidelines and 
keep books published in the last 5 years, I'll have about 25 books left.  If I 
broaden that to 10 years, I'll probably have about one shelving unit full, with 
room to spare (I currently have 8 very full units).  
The books have to go, but should I weed a few, replace, weed a few more, replace, 
and thus keep many out-of-date books on the shelves for now and spread the process 
out over a few years? Or, should I make a clean sweep of it, get rid of the 
out-of-date stuff, and replace as I can?  This would leave a lot of glaringly empty 
shelves and a very full dumpster, but I'm rearranging at the end of the year, so I 
should be able to make the empty spots less "obvious."
What have some of you done in similar situations?


Anita Beaman, Librarian
Washington High School
Washington, IL

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