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In an elementary library 😬 no explanation needed!

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Publication year 2003!

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Filmstrips for The Matchlock Gun (?!) and explaining the Dewey system, encyclopedias, etc.

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I am finally doing the deep dive into the final back cabinets and I found filmstrips!

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One of many doozies I have found this year in one of my middle schools.

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I found two copies of this on the shelf when I started weeding at my current library!

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No words necessary...

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And it won the "Avon Flare Competition" :-D

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I made this with some of the best of that particular week. And then of course never did another week....

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Comic Panel 1

Q: Why do libraries need to be weeded?

A: To keep the collection attractive, relevant and easy to access, not "M.U.S.T.I.E."

The following pages highlight some examples of why a library needs to be weeded on a continual basis.

These books were found on the high school library shelves in October 2021.

This video illustrates the need for weeding.

Comic Panel 1

No. 1 Guard of the N.B.A. Walt Frazier

Published: 1976
Added to collection: 1977
Price: $5.29
Last checked out: 2005
Weeded: 10/2021

Call Me Anna:
The Autobiography of Patty Duke

Published: 1988 (paperback)
Added to collection: 2003
Original price: $5.99
Last checked out: NEVER
Weeded: 10/2021

Bonus: was discarded from another library before NHS

If I Knew Then...
by Amy Fisher

Published: 2004
Added to collection: 2008
Original price: $15.95
Last checked out: NEVER
Weeded: 10/2021

Bonus: How many faculty members are too young to know who Amy Fisher is or what she did in 1992?

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Comic Panel 1 Q: Why do libraries need to be weeded? A: To keep the collection attractive, relevant and easy to access, not "M.U.S.T.I.E." The following pages highlight some examples of why a library needs to be weeded on a continual basis. These books were found on the high school library shelves in October 2021.

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This one was a previous school....I think I laughed for 15 minutes.

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I just feel like today's students might have a different definition of "queer" than students did when this book was published...

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This is one of my most recent weeds.  Yikes! 

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Larry!!!! Yep, anyone old enough to remember when Larry Bird played for the Boston Celtics might feel a touch of nostalgia over this one but when it came over to the new MS/HS Media Ctr in 2015 it had to go!

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Let it Go!! No, not THAT Elsa. If I told you that I recognize Elsa the white lion I'd be showing my age. These two books were part of the collection that came over from the old middle school in 2015 when the MS and HS non-fiction collections were combined as part of the new Media Center. I photographed them and then promptly put them into recycling along with several thousand other titles.

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Bound to get our K-5 students excited about astronomy.

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This may be my favorite of all time.

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From back when I was weeding our district's elementary library.

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(it was an Oprah Book Club book too!)

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Abigail Adams deserves better than these

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Try Awful Library Books! Their tag line: "Hoarding is not collection development."

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Peek inside!

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See some more closeups from this book!

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Peek inside for some tips!

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See some photos from this book!

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Read the chapter "Attention Young Ladies"

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See the first chapter Your Life in 2001

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Read the back too!