Reach out to your faculty before weeding too much.  Do any teachers do a project or assignment where biographies would be essential, or at least helpful, but they are not aware of what the library has?  Are they looking for biographies other than the ones you have?

At my high school, the biography circulation went up when I began working with one of our business teachers on several company/entrepreneur assignments.  

Cathy Andronik
(Retired) Brien McMahon HS, Norwalk

On Wednesday, 22 March 2023 at 10:20:50 am GMT-4, Kenneth Dunaj <dunajk@wiltonps.org> wrote:


Hi Michele,

As a high school, we keep a good sized Biography collection. It is a section we try to weed bi-annualy due to student interests and curriculum. I agree with several of the respondents to your inquiry that the social studies curriculum and or ELA independent reading opportunities are typically when our Biography/memoir collection is accessed by student patrons. I find that eBooks are only used by students for summer reading options if the print is not available. 

Best,

Ken


 
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:06 AM Michele Lane <mlane@colchesterct.org> wrote:
Good morning, 

I am working on weeding my biography section and thought I'd crowd source my question. My biography section sits neatly on the shelf, relatively untouched for the past 5 years. It contains different level readability books on the same person. As these are not read, and biographies are readily available online, my desire is to weed down based on year published and last circulation. Does anyone have thoughts on why I should keep multiple reading levels of these biographies? 



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