Milne Library Weeding Project
The Library Weeding Task Force has been working collaboratively with faculty to identify books for potential deselection based on widely accepted criteria. Additionally, faculty have been working with the librarians on review of materials in their disciplines. After actively working this past summer, 2015, a list has been created that will be distributed to the Senate listserv for final review by the faculty. A thoughtful review of the print collection and removal of titles deemed no longer suitable is a necessary part of collection development for all academic libraries. The Milne Weeding Task Force is committed to an inclusive, collaborative process that will result in improvement to the overall collection.
Documents and Task Force Minutes
- Milne Weeding: a brief historyDescribes weeding projects completed over the past 30 years.
- Weeding ProcessWeeding project process.
- Weeding Task Force Memo, April 2015Memo to the campus administration outlining the goals and process of the weeding project.
Collection Review List, Fall 2015
- De-selection List (Excel)List in call number order of all volumes currently under review. Librarians were assisted by faculty from the Biology, History, English, and Philosophy departments.
For reviewers: please download the spreadsheet above with the information regarding volumes under review. By default, all volumes listed will be weeded unless a reviewer notifies us to remove a title from the list. Please use the last column on the right of each volume listed to generate an email to the Weeding Task Force Chair. The email will contain title and barcode. Feel free to add any other information as to why you would like to see this title removed from the list. Do not email edited versions of the spreadsheet. Thanks for your help!
GreenGlass Collection Analysis
GreenGlass™ is a modern, purpose-built web application developed by Sustainable Collection Services™. It is a convenient customized tool that offers immediate answers to important questions about your collection.This video shows how GreenGlass™ works. Milne Library monographic metadata was extracted from aleph to populate the Milne instance of GreenGlass. The system was used to produce various collection lists that were helpful during the summer 2015 weeding project.