Weeding with ADDIE: Developing Training For Deselection At An Academic Library

Step-by-step review of a collection evaluation project in a large academic library • Evidence-based evaluation criteria should be developed early in review process • Usage statistics and other metrics are helpful, but should be used judiciously • Project management tools help to monitor progress and improve productivity • Innovative virtual review shelf involved professorial faculty in collection weeding

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Discovering Data Discrepancies during Deselection: A Study of GreenGlass, Aleph, and Due Date Slips Circulation Data

Hendley

2019

Technical Services Quarterly

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Amid a weeding project, librarians at a state college suspected GreenGlass's circulation data was inaccurate. This study compared GreenGlass's and Aleph's circulation statistics for a random sample of books. It also determined if GreenGlass's list of books with zero uses included curriculum related works using keyword searching. The study compared GreenGlass's and due date slips' circulation data for curriculum related titles. Some GreenGlass circulation data was erroneous. Additionally, curriculum related books that circulated were on GreenGlass's zero use list. The study's results helped retain pertinent titles and highlighted the inadequacy of relying exclusively on circulation data to weed monographs.

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Weeding with ADDIE: Developing Training For Deselection At An Academic Library

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