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IML253:

Preservation of Library Materials


WEEDING PROCESS
Introduction
• A library need to undergo regular evaluation and maintenance of its contents if the collection
is to remain healthy and valuable.

• “Weeding” is the removal of materials that are judged by professional librarians to be in


poor physical condition or to have become inaccurate due to changes in knowledge.

• Weeding (or de-accessioning, unacquiring, deselecting, removing, discarding and trashing) of


materials is an important component of collection development, yet it receives less attention
than the selection of new materials in most libraries.

• Librarians charged with weeding are doing this part of their job on a regular and ongoing
basis, just as they are selecting new materials on a regular and ongoing basis. These
professionals do their work using many tools that help them to evaluate the possible and
likely future usefulness of materials that seem currently to be sitting unused on the shelf.
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Why Weed the Library Materials?
• Magrill and Corbin (1989) have identified three groups of
criteria that are ordinarily used in making weeding decisions:
▪ usage,
▪ value or quality,
▪ physical condition.

• So simply the documents which are seldom used and which


are less value or not of good quality in contents and those are
not in good condition, can be weeded out to give room for
new documents.
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Which Materials can be Weed Out?
• Books, audiovisual items, and periodicals all have a place in weeding
consideration.
• Generally, outdated poor contents material, worn or ragged items, poorly
bound or scratched CDs/ DVDs, books with missing pages and the reading
materials which has not been used for a long time can be weeded out
from the library collection.

• Broadly, the following categories of materials are generally considered for


weeding out from a library collection (Anonymous, 2009):

➢ Ephemeral material (e.g. newsletters, progress reports, pamphlets) including


those materials that lose value after a certain period of time such as: annual
reports, directories, yearbooks, etc. These are weeded out annually.
➢ Annuals, directories, yearbooks, handbooks, etc. do not carry long lasting
value, and therefore be weeding out. Duplicate copies of older editions can
also be weeded out. But the categorization of the documents for its
ephemeral value or otherwise is to be decided by the library committee.
Benefits of Weeding
• save the space
• save the time of patrons, staff and yourself
• make the collection more appealing by replacing ragged,
smudged books and unattractive rebinds with attractive new
books
• enhance library’s reputation for reliability and currency and
build public trust
• keep up with collection needs
• constant feedback on the collection’s strength and weakness
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What to do with Weeded Materials?
• Sell It: Weeded material can be sold out to the public or private.

• Donate It: Weeded material can be donated to a hospital, nursing home,


adult or juvenile correctional facility, charitable institution, school district,
or to a small library.

• Trade It: Weeded material can also be traded out with another library, or
with a used book dealer, for a book your library can use.

• Recycle It: Weeded documents can also be recycled by using a local


contractor, perhaps in cooperation with local government agencies.

• Destroy It: This is the last option, when the material is of such type that
neither it can be donated or sold out then, it can be destroyed by burning
in an incinerator or by tossing it into the trash.
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Conclusion

• Weeding is an art of keeping the library collection current,


accessible, and tailored to users’ needs.
• Thus, weeding seems to be carried out necessarily to give
room the new coming documents and also to maintain update
collection in a library.
References
Anonymous. Basic Conservation of Archival Materials: Revised Edition.
Canada: Canadian Council of Archives, 2003.
Dhiman, A.K. and Rani, Yashoda. Library Management: A Manual Book for
Effective Management. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications, 2004.
Dhiman, A. K. and Rani, Yashoda. Learn Library Management. New Delhi: Ess
Ess Publication, 2005.
Parekh, Harsha. Digitization: An Overview of Issues. In Creation and
Management of Digital resources (CALIBER-2001 Papers) edited
by M.K.R. Naidu, Ashok Jambhekar, S.M. Salgar and T.S. Kumbar,
INFLIBNET, Ahemdabad. 2001. p. 1-11.
Sahoo, Jyotshna. “Preservation of Library Materials: Some Preventive
Measures”. CHRJ 48, no. 1 (2007): 105-114.

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