[LM_NET] HIT: Documenting Weeding on Follett

["G.W. Geiger" <bookspice@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Thank you to all who responded.  The consensus is that most of you are not required 
to keep a list of the titles that you weed from your library and are QUITE HAPPY 
about that.  :-)
 
As for me, I am especially grateful to Kathy Graves, retired librarian from the 
county just to the north of me, for letting me know that Follett automatically 
makes just the list of weeds that I have to keep on file.   (Kathy, as a 
librarian-in-training I visited your library several years ago.  I learned so much 
from you then, and I am still learning from you now.  Best regards to you in your 
"retirement.")
 
Solution:  “Go into your CC40 file in Follett, there should be a folder called 
Weeding or weedlog.txt and you will find your weeds listed there.”

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Hello,Although I have never been asked to show a list of weeded books to our Board 
of Trustees in my 5 years as district librarian, it has been my understanding that 
keeping a list is required by district policy. (Yes, I am looking everywhere to see 
if this is written down somewhere.)Over the years, I have had the library 
information specialists at each of the school sites make a bookbag with the books 
that they are discarding before they take them out of the Follett system. At the 
end of the year, they send me either a paper copy or a text file with this bookbag 
of weeded titles. This is cumbersome and still unsatisfactory because it doesn't 
give the price of each book deleted. Is there a simple(r) way on Follett to create 
such a list of weeded titles that has prices on it? I suppose I could just rewrite 
the policy on weeding and ask the Board to okay it, so we don't have to do this at 
all, but I would actually like to know what is being discarded, in case I have to 
defend these decisions someday.What is your practice for documenting your weeds, if 
you have one? I'll post a hit if there's any interest in this topic.Ginger Geiger, 
District LibrarianCentral Valley High SchoolGateway Unified School District4066 La 
Mesa AvenueCity of Shasta Lake, CA 
96019530-275-7075bookspice@hotmail.comggeiger@gsd.k12.ca.us
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