2017 Charleston Library Conference

At previous Charleston Conference meetings, there was much discussion about how to efficiently weed academic library collections across disciplines using quantitative criteria. The presenters recently published an article in Collection Management entitled “Weeding with Wisdom: Tuning Deselection of Print Monographs in Book-Reliant Disciplines” in which they argue for the importance of retaining some low circulating books in areas such as history and literature where scholars are dependent on older, lesser used materials for research and teaching. Presenters will offer some suggestions from their experience with a major weeding project and invite discussion on ways to improve the deselection process through the use of qualitative techniques for weeding book-reliant disciplines in an attempt to maximize the quality of a monograph collection.