library technical processes

"Literacy advocates Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp follow the lifecycle of Sharp's classroom library across the year, showing us practical ways to support young reader--from weeding the collection before kids arrive and to matching them with books they want to read, to evaluating and supporting their growth as they become increasingly independent readers"--OCLC.

"Weeding helps a library thrive by focusing its resources on those parts of the collection that are most useful to its users...[the author's] handbook...[gives] public and school library staff the knowledge...to effectively weed any collection..."--amazon.com.

Describes a simple technique for gathering statistics that may then be used to manage and analyze library collections in small libraries and school media centers, and includes alternate methods of data analysis, and suggestions for further reading.

Provides several weeding methods for all library collections discussing current weeding practices, library standards relating to weeding, present weeding criteria, and recommended weeding objectives, and including instruction on computer assisted weeding, and the weeding of reference collections.