Weeding

I chose an article about weeding for my final critique because I wanted it to coincide with our next project. It helped because it had a helpful outline to help you weed effectively and efficiently. I am genuinely excited about this project because our collection age is so old (1988). I want to see what I can do to help. My librarian said that if I saw something that definitly needed to be weeded to go ahead and pull it. She is going on maternity leave in the spring, so she's glad to have any help she can get!

Selection Tools Project

This project was the hardest one so far for me. I found a lot of potential selection tools, but only a few that I would really want to rely on. It was interesting to find out about each tool and database and how easy it is to search for books. I am interested to see how these tools will affect the weeding/replacement part of our next project!

Collection Development Policy Analysis

I decided to read and write about Union County Public Library's collection development policy. I was different from what I wanted to report on, because I really wanted to read an elementary school's policy. I was relieved to read this policy though because it was so easy to read and understand. I think it was really written for the average patron of the public library. I was able to read it and apply it to my school and my library with little to no problem. I think that whoever wrote the policy did a great job. My only suggestion was to include an evaluation tool in the policy. It would only enhance the policy and the library.