[CASL-L] Weeding non-fiction books

[STEPHANIE PATTERSON]

I inherited quite a bit too, and a little mold problem was a blessing a few years back. I reduced to about 1/3 and substituted Proquest and Infobase databases. ELibrary is a great go-to and SIRS and several history and Blooms for English.

I'm not seeing that much traction with eBooks - databases seem a better fit. I've expanded the Junior Library Guild order to cover lots of categories and we get a new box of books each month with cataloging. It's great to see new material coming in in small manageable increments.

Stephanie Patterson
Southington High

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On Jan 6, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Juliann T. Moskowitz <juliann14 at hotmail.com<mailto:juliann14 at hotmail.com>> wrote:


I also did a big weed this past summer. We had a small collection to begin with but, I tried to replace whatever I could with more up-to-date copies. Luckily I have a decent budget and I have been augmenting our collection with eBooks.

There is no set rule for how many volumes to have. We went through NEASC accreditation last year and this is what NEASC has to say about materials in a high school library: These resources (i.e. collections, technology, and services), owned by the institution or guaranteed through formal written agreements, are appropriate in quality, level, scope, diversity, quantity, and currency to support and enrich the institution's mission.


Our books don't get as much use as they have in the past either but, some teachers require a print source so I feel obligated to have at least one book on topics that I know are often assigned as research projects.



Juliann T. Moskowitz
Director of Library Media
St. Joseph High School
Trumbull, CT 06611
juliann14 at hotmail.com<mailto:juliann14 at hotmail.com>

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”—Ray Bradbury













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Subject: [CASL-L] Weeding non-fiction books

Good evening-

Just looking to to some substantial weeding in the non-fiction section of the library due to the fact that so many of these books rarely go out and we'd like to reconfigure our space to turn it into a meeting space/collaboration area for multiple classes, etc. Also would love to be able to increase the room we have for our Makerspace.  The question I have is if there is a requirement as to the number of non-fiction books that remain in a library.  I vaguely remember something about it, but clearly don't remember the details.  Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!

Kristen Shanley
Dodd Library Media Specialist

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