Dear LM_NET Colleagues,
I would like to congratulate Donna Baumbach and Linda Miller on the
publication of their new book, "Less Is More: A Practical Guide to
Weeding School Library Collections," a new book now available from ALA
Editions. See below).
I dearly miss the regular "Weed of the Month" postings here on LM_NET, but
now that I have the book, all is well again! I hope that it will be well
received, since weeding is an area of librarianship that many of us have a
hard time with-- me being one of the biggest culprits. "Less Is More: A
Practical Guide to Weeding School Library Collections" makes me feel less
guilty when I am away from school and have a subsitute, knowing that they
will be doing some very productive work that I seldom seem to get around
to doing! ;-)
Peter
Peter Milbury, LM_NET Co-Moderator pmilbury@iis.syr.edu
School Librarian/CA TeleMentor, Chico HS, Chico, CA
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:14:29 -0400
From: Donna Baumbach <baumbach@MAIL.UCF.EDU>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] GEN: New Weeding Book
Remember SUNLINK's Weed-of-the-Month? Of course you do! Many of you
LM_NET members participated by suggesting topics, relaying the worst
titles you found, and suggesting replacement titles. Even more of you
participated in weeding your collections!
Well, "Weed" is back--sort of. We've updated many of the topics and
introduced some new ones in "Less Is More: A Practical Guide to Weeding
School Library Collections," a new book now available from ALA Editions.
We've also surrounded the weeding topics with chapters on the role of
weeding in collection development, general weeding guidelines, where and
how to start (and how to keep going), the role of automation in weeding,
and what to do--and not to do--with the stuff you've weeded. There's a
handy-dandy chart of weeding criteria by Dewey classification and a list
of weeding resources you can find on the World Wide Web. We've added
some of our favorite quotations and humor about weeding (yes, there is a
light side!) We've dedicated it to YOU and there's a foreward by Peter
Milbury of LM_NET and Nancy Teger of the Florida Department of Education
(SUNLINK's fairy godmother!)
You can find it at ALA Editions -
http://www.alastore.ala.org/SiteSolution.taf?_sn=catalog2&_pn=product_detail&_op=1992
(or TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/nqz3o ). If you're going to ALA in NOLA,
you should find it in the ALA Bookstore onsite.
We hope, like Weed-of-the-Month, it inspires you to keep on keeping on
so that all of our students will find school library media centers that
are inviting and up-to-date.
Donna Baumbach and Linda Miller
Florida SUNLINK Project
University of Central Florida
baumbach@mail.ucf.edu
millerl@mail.ucf.edu
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