[CASL-L] average age of books

[Shannon McNeice]

The CREW manual for weeding has some guidelines:
<https://www.tsl.texas.gov/sites/default/files/public/tslac/ld/ld/pubs/crew/crewmethod12.pdf>

  Geography titles more than five years old are misleading and inaccurate
and should be pulled. The older the title, the more inaccurate the content
will be. Imagine how useless a title published before either of the World
Wars CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries.
www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/crew/index.html Texas State Library and
Archives Commission Page 36 of 107 is to a student today working on a
research paper topic from the 20th century! Although they may be
interesting from an historical point of view, books on countries and states
are of no value for contemporary social studies projects.

Science, Medicine, Inventions and other topics that change rapidly should
be reviewed and updated every five years. Items more than ten years old
should almost always be discarded. As in the adult collection, erroneous
information about science, technology or medicine is potentially harmful to
the patron who may attempt to follow instructions no longer considered
safe.

Shannon McNeice

Library Media Specialist

Sedgwick Middle School

West Hartford, CT 06107

860-570-6500 x2440

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On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 11:10 PM Musket, Kimberly <
kmusket at wallingfordschools.org> wrote:

> Hello All,
> Does anyone know where to find the recommended average age of books for
> our libraries? In Titlewave (Follett), it tells us that the state minimum-
> is 25 books per student but I didn't see a recommended average age. Is it
> on the ALA site somewhere?
>
> Thank you
> Kim
>
> Kim Musket
> School Librarian
> James H. Moran, Sr. Middle School
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