Weeding without Walking: A Mediated Approach to List-Based Deselection

McHale, Christopher; Egger-Sider, Francine; Fluk, Louise; Ovadia, Steven

doi:10.1080/01462679.2017.1318729

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“…The process involves library staff, subject specialists, library users and IT expertise. The following criteria are considered important for decision making: relevance of the resources to the institutional curriculum, age of resources, language of communication and format of the information resource (McHale et al, 2017). For example, weeding of electronic resources is mainly a challenge to most of the academic libraries in developing countries (Benny, 2015).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

Mwilongo

Luambano

Lwehabura

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The aim of this study was to assess the collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania. Specifically, the study examined the collection development practices and factors that influence these practices. The study involved four academic libraries and employed both qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. Primary data were collected through informant interviews, observations and questionnaires methods. The study involved 44 library staff who filled in self-administered questionnaires. The study discloses that collection development practices and particularly evaluation and weeding or deselection are rarely conducted at these academic libraries. The findings further reveal that collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania are constrained by inadequate funding, lack of skills for hybrid collection management and lack of collection development policy catering for both print- and electronic-based information resources. On the basis of the findings, the study recommends that academic libraries should establish a comprehensive collection development policy and introduce professional development programmes to library staff for efficient management of hybrid collections.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

Mwilongo

Luambano

Lwehabura

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…16 After briefly describing their own deselection project at LaGuardia Community College Library, McHale et al conclude that although objective criteria for withdrawals are necessary for speed, librarians' professional judgment and even physically reviewing bookstacks will still benefit the final outcome. 17 Ward's Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection examines the entire process for a collection review project, including the reasons to conduct a review, how to determine titles for deselection, and processes to remove and dispose of those titles. 18…”

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A Large-Scale Collection Review with Faculty Collaboration: A Comprehensive View

Burke

Davis

Hallberg

et al. 2021

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Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library developed a multiyear comprehensive and strategic collection review of print monographs. In this paper, the authors focus on the operational components of the project, such as generating potential deselection lists with GreenGlass, convening working groups to plan the project, developing strategies for faculty outreach and faculty collection review, and analyzing deselection and retention data. The authors share decision-making processes as well as lessons learned that were involved in the project design and implementation phases throughout the extensive collection review project.

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“…As has been described previously in the literature (e.g., McHale et al, 2017), successful weeding projects in the past have employed a mix of objective rules and human judgment. Such was the case for this project.…”

Section: Preparationmentioning

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Collection weeding: Innovative processes and tools to ease the burden

Nelson

Goates

Pixton

et al. 2020

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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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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Weeding without Walking: A Mediated Approach to List-Based Deselection

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

A Large-Scale Collection Review with Faculty Collaboration: A Comprehensive View

Collection weeding: Innovative processes and tools to ease the burden

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