discarding of books, periodicals, etc

"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.

Provides methods of weeding library collections, including information on computer assisted systems.

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.

Contains practical advice for updating a school library collection describing why it is important and how to use automation tools to make the job easier.