Weeding Workshop - Hands on Training

This is a re-post of an e-mail sent out on October 18th by Sally Bates. Please forward this post to any staff who might be interested. As always, please get permission from your supervisor before signing-up. This workshop is approved for training credit:

The Collection Development librarians will be presenting a hands-on weeding workshop on Thursday, November 10, at the Johnson Neighborhood Library.  It will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will last 2.5 hours.

This workshop is for those with collection management responsibilities who may be new to the system or need a refresher.

Material covered includes:

Why weeding is important

Houston Public Library weeding policy

Tools to weed dated materials

Tools to decide whether to weed or float materials that are not circulating, including Collection HQ

How to weed materials in poor condition

How to process out materials for float or discard

How to schedule weeding/floating into daily workflow

Thanks to the Johnson NL who will host us!  The workshop will include hands-on weeding in the Johnson collection, which is scheduled to be RFID-tagged in the near future.

You can sign up by going to the calendar located on the Training Portal on the Intranet.  If you have any questions, contact CD at 3-1469.