When weeding in these sections these are my recommendations:
1) I would keep recent printings of books by these authors. Patrons are more
likely to select recent printings over older printings, particularly if there
are issues of condition.
2) If you are uncomfortable getting rid of a book, go on addall.com/used and
search there to see how much reading copies of the book are going for. If the
lowest price you find there is above $20.00 or $40.00 or whatever threshold you
think might be a pain point for an average congregant to buy their own copy,
then keep the book. If you follow this step I think you will assuage some of
the anguish you are experiencing in the weeding process.
If your patrons feel like the collection isn't static I expect that they will
be more interested in making regular visits. It is a great thing to have all
the classics, but, at least the visual of newness is what people are used to in
retail situations, and I think that many people view library collections in the
same way that they shop.
Weed through your patrons eyes.
All the best,
Henry Hollander
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Subject: [ha-Safran] Painful weeding decisions
Dear Hasafranim, We all know the pain of being forced to weed our collections.
I'm fast running out of space in my adult fiction/literature sections. I've
already done a ton of weeding, but I wonder about what are considered classics
-- Bernard
Dear Hasafranim,
We all know the pain of being forced to weed our collections. I'm fast running
out of space in my adult fiction/literature sections. I've already done a ton
of weeding, but I wonder about what are considered classics -- Bernard Malamud,
Saul Bellow, Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, I.B. Singer, etc. I don't want to
get rid of ANY of it, but I wonder how others have decided what to keep and
what to sell/donate.
Rachel Haus
Library Director
Congregation of Moses Fisher Library
Kalamazoo MI
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