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Collaborating with Faculty to Weed an Entire Science and Engineering Book Collection

Collaborating with Faculty to Weed an Entire Science and Engineering Book Collection

Scott Juskiewicz, Betsy Harper Garlish
ISBN13: 9781466618978|ISBN10: 1466618973|EISBN13: 9781466618985
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1897-8.ch021
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Juskiewicz, Scott, and Betsy Harper Garlish. "Collaborating with Faculty to Weed an Entire Science and Engineering Book Collection." Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices, edited by Sara Holder, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 361-374. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1897-8.ch021

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Juskiewicz, S. & Garlish, B. H. (2013). Collaborating with Faculty to Weed an Entire Science and Engineering Book Collection. In S. Holder (Ed.), Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices (pp. 361-374). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1897-8.ch021

Chicago

Juskiewicz, Scott, and Betsy Harper Garlish. "Collaborating with Faculty to Weed an Entire Science and Engineering Book Collection." In Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices, edited by Sara Holder, 361-374. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1897-8.ch021

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Abstract

Weeding book collections and collaborating with faculty are necessary activities for academic libraries. Librarians, however, are often reluctant to remove books from collections and collaborating with faculty is often viewed as a difficult affair. In the fall of 2008 the Montana Tech Library, a small university library specializing in engineering, the sciences, and medicine, successfully collaborated with teaching faculty to weed the entire book collection. This chapter discusses how to successfully collaborate with faculty and offers advice on how to overcome the hesitation associated with weeding. Successful collaboration and overcoming the reservations of weeding can ultimately lead to the creation of a true “use collection” generated by customer driven collection development.

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