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Best of Core Forum: Stewarding Relevance: Subject-Diverse Weeding
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.
Description: Weeding collections is a perennial challenge in academic and research libraries, one that requires resources and time amid dwindling staff, space, and financial commitments. This presentation, intended for collection development librarians, subject selection specialists, collection managers, and collection support staff, provides an overview of the planning, implementation, and method for a customized collection assessment and weeding of a large multi-subject research collection. In addition to achieving its primary goal to deaccession duplicated or non-relevant materials that were no longer in support of the institution’s collecting and programmatic goals, current research mission, or historical relevance, it fostered cross-unit collaboration, provided an opportunity to re-contextualized forgotten materials, and left stakeholders with a feeling of accomplishment and community. This home-grown assessment was developed by an initial working group of five and implemented by a staff of two. The method was mindful of available staff time and technology and was conducted while the collection was in active use. Charts, worksheets, and preparation materials will be demonstrated.
Learning outcomes:
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Given an active collection in need of a monograph holdings assessment, the learner will be able to outline a weeding program plan that does not interrupt service or circulation.
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Given multiple stakeholders in a monograph collections assessment scenario, the learner will be able to integrate conflicting cross disciplinary collecting priorities to determine retention.
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Given a goal of developing a large-scale weeding project of monographic materials, the learner will be able to adapt the provided review checklist to the assessment process.
Who should attend?
This presentation is intended for collection development librarians, subject matter specialists, collection managers, and collection support staff who are collection content selectors or advisors, those who implement collection development plans, or collection management staff interested in a scalable project plan for weeding with existing staff.
Presenter:
Daria Wingreen’s career in libraries spans 27 years. Though comprehensive, it has been in one place: the Smithsonian Libraries (now Archives). She's been a collections technician, copy cataloger, reference librarian, branch manager, and collection development officer. Her understanding of federal museum research librarianship is both thorough and nuanced. Daria is currently the head of the Smithsonian Libraries Research Annex where she is organizing a 400,000+ item collection shift with the aid of student workers.
Alan Katz has worked in libraries for 16 years. He’s been a library technician, reference librarian, collections project manager, and . In “other duties as assigned” Alan has migrated paper workflows to electronic for gift donations, and he’s drafted SLRA’s project plan for a large-scale collection shift. Recently, Alan was detailed to oral history assignment.
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Registration fees for webinar: Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10; Non-member $79.00
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*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*
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