Collections ManagementCollections Management Presentations & Webinars
Weeding Webinar Series
Weeding: An Overview
Session Description: Dr. Pamela Thomas, Technical Services Librarian at Illinois Central College (timing on the recording: 03:43-14:06) and Connie Lee, Technical Services Manager at Schewe Library at Illinois College (timing on the recording: 14:47-24:37) each present an overview of weeding and the process that they respectively use at their institutions for reviewing their collection. Bryan Deziel, Project Assistant at the Rebecca Crown Library at Dominican University, describes a project of Reappraisal and Deaccession at his institution (timing on the recording: 24:44 – 40:00).
View recording ~ 44 minutes
Weeding: Communication & Outreach
Session Description: Dr. Pamela Thomas, Technical Services Librarian at Illinois Central College (timing on the recording: 1:47-12:00) presents the communication and outreach done during their regular weeding process at ICC, both within the library and on campus. Chad Buckley, Head of Collections at Illinois State University's Milner Library (timing on the recording: 12:06-30:56) discusses a one time weeding project that resulted in some lessons learned on the importance of communication and outreach.
View recording ~ 31 minutes
Weeding Webinar: Re-evaluating Library Materials
Session Description:Matt Gorzalski, University Archivist, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (timing on the recording: 1:02-21:46) presents an overview of weeding, re-evaluating, and de-accessioning materials in an archival setting. Following that, we hear about two separate reference collection weeding projects: first David W. Bottorff, Head of Collection Management, at Regenstein Library, University of Chicago (timing on the recording: 22:07-39:07) talks about the process used at the University of Chicago to consolidate and weed 7 individual reference collections into 2 reference collections. Then, William A. McHugh, Principal Bibliographer, Coordinator for General and Interdisciplinary Services, and Reference Collection Management Librarian and Geoffrey Morse, Coordinator for Humanities and Social Sciences, both of Northwestern University Library (timing on the recording: 39:13-58:57) share their process and experiences reducing a very large reference collection in order to create more student space.
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