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De-selection: what are we throwing out?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Ilga Leja
Ilga Leja*
Affiliation:
Director of Library Services, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 5163 Duke Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 3J6
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Abstract

The practice of weeding, known more latterly as de-selection, stock disposal or even de-acquisitioning, is the ‘poor cousin’ of library practices. Librarians undertake weeding, often for reasons they would like to reverse, such as scarcity of space and resources. Whatever the reasons, librarians everywhere are doing it. They just do not like to talk about it.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , 2002 , pp. 40
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2002

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