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=LIBE 463 - Assignment 4= =Weeding= = = The following is a list of the ten books I will be weeding from my library collection supporting the BC Science 5 curriculum. I followed the weeding policy - see Assignment 4 - data - for the weeding criteria and ask for a list with books that had not been signed out in 7 years. I chose 7 years as it fell between the 5-10 year range for this Dewey Classification section. Note that for some of the titles there were book cover images and for some there were not.

1. Title: The human body : how we evolved  Author: Cole, Joanna.  ISBN: 9780688067205  Personal Author: Cole, Joanna.  Publication Information: New York : Morrow, c1987.  Physical Description: 63 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.  General Note: Includes index.  Abstract: Traces the development of man, from early prehistoric ancestors to the modern tool-user who walks upright.  The above item is being removed, following District Resource guidelines, because it is over 10 years old, it is not relevant to this Human Body strand of the BC Science 5 curriculum and it has an antiquated appearance. The book has not been signed out in 7 years.

**2.** Title: The Macmillan book of the humanbody  Author: Elting, Mary, 1909-  ISBN: 9780020430803   Personal Author: Elting, Mary, 1909-    Publication Information: New York : Macmillan, 1986.  Physical Description: 80 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.  General Note: Includes index."Aladdin books". <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;"> Abstract: Describes the physical characteristics and functions of the various parts of the <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094);">body. The above item is being removed because it is over 10 years old, and the images/illustrations are dated. The book has not been signed out in 7 years. 3. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Title: The lungs and breathing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> Author: Parker, Steve. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> ISBN: 9780531107102 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Personal Author: Parker, Steve. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Edition: Rev. ed. Publication Information: London : Watts, c1989. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Physical Description: 48 p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 28 cm. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Series: The <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #013f85;">Human bod Series Title:the <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094);">Human body <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">General Note:Includes index. This item was removed as it is over 10 years old, is antiquated in appearance and has not been signed out in 7 years. 4. Title: The eye and seeing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> Author: Parker, Steve. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">ISBN: 9780531106549 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Personal Author: Parker, Steve. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Edition: Rev. ed. Publication Information: London : Watts, c1989. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Physical Description: 48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. ports. ; 28 cm. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Series: The <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #013f85;">Humanbody Series Title: The <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094);">Human body This item was removed due to age, physical condition, images/illustrations are dated and it has not been signed out in 7 years. Note: This is a series and the entire series has been removed for the reasons listed above. 5. Title: Looking at the <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444;">body <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> Author: Suzuki, David T., 1936- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">ISBN: 9780773751163  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Personal Author: Suzuki, David T., 1936-   <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Publication Information: Toronto : Stoddart, 1987. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">Physical Description: 96 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;">General Note: Includes index. This item, although authored by a BC author/scientist, was removed for age, poor physical condition, antiquated appearance and it had not been signed out is 7 years.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Publication Information: [S.l.] : Sandler Institutional Films, c1984. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Physical Description: 1 videocassette (18 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> General Note: Closed captioned. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Abstract: When two boys show up at an equipment rental and repair shop for help with their science fair project on <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094);">machines, the owner of the shop gives them a tour. Together they examine the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, inclined plane, and screw, along with some compound <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094);">machines, including a bicycle, a typewriter, and a corkscrew. Suitability: Early intermediate science. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Reading Level: Level: Elem. ; Recommended Gr. 4-6. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;">This item is being removed due to age and antiquated appearance of the video. There are more current videos, such as Bill Nye, available from the District Resource Centre. **7.** Title: The <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094);">Simple machine  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> Author: National Geographic Society (U.S.) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Publication Information: [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic Society, c1993. Physical Description: 1 videocassette (20 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + General Note: Closed captioned. Abstract: Uses animation and live action to demonstrate the principles behind the usefulness of the lever, the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the pully, and the wheel and axle.
 * 6. ** Title: <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444;">Simple & compound <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444;">machines [how they work]

This item is being removed due to age, and poor quality of the video. More current videos are available either through the District Resource Centre and/or the District database. 8. Title: The science book of <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444;">machines <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> Author: Ardley, Neil. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">ISBN: 9780385253611 Personal Author: <span style="color: #013f85; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Ardley, Neil. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Publication Information: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, c1992. Physical Description: 29 p. : col. ports. ; 25 cm. Series: <span style="color: #013f85; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">The Science book of <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">General Note: "A Dorling Kindersley book." Abstract: <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Simple <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;"> experiments illustrate mechanical principles.

This item is being removed due to age, poor condition and poor circulation numbers. 9. Title: Marbles, roller skates, doorknobs : <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444;">simple machines that are really wheels <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> Author: Lampton, Christopher. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">ISBN: 9781878841247 Personal Author: <span style="color: #013f85; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Lampton, Christopher. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Publication Information: Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook, c1991. Physical Description: 31 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Series: <span style="color: #013f85; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Gateway <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #013f85; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">simplemachines <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Series Title: Gateway <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">simple machines <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">General Note: Includes index. This item is being removed as it is a duplicate. 10. Title: What should I use? : the technology of <span class="hotspot" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.496094); color: #444444;">simple machines <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top;"> Author: Drew, David. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">ISBN: 9780731206247 Personal Author: <span style="color: #013f85; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Drew, David. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Publication Information: Scarborough, Ont. : Ginn, c1992. Physical Description: 17 p. : col. ill. ; 52 cm. Series: <span style="color: #013f85; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Ginn realization technology <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Series Title: Ginn realization technology

This title is being removed as it is a big book and no longer being used in the primary grades and inappropriate (too young) for Grade 5. (Pictures could be used to make posters for a classroom display.) These books were discarded according to District policy - see Assignment 4 Data - Weeding PDF.

**Reflective Report**

 * (NOTE:** This reflection is a reflection of the weeding that took place in our library before this class began. We removed some 1200 items from the library in Fiction, Non-Fiction, English Easy. French Easy was not weeded due to lack of time and problems with replacing items as the budget had been spent for the year. This is the second such major weeding in four years.)

I like weeding. I do not have the excuses and reasons listed in Bishop's book (pg 124). I am a minimalist and I like my library to look inviting and efficient. Students and staff can come in, find the space they need to work, investigate, collaborate and not feel claustrophobic or crowded. I want them to be able to look around the room and really 'see' what they need, what calls to them, what catches their interest in that moment. I also do not want sections of redundant or duplicate materials such as in the reference section when our District has spent time, money and effort to create a District-wide database. Out-dated, obsolete, worn out and irrelevant materials do not serve the purpose I want for our school's library.

To begin the weeding process, we do not use the OPAC system that I used for this assignment. We call the District Resource Centre and ask for a Sirsi-Dynix run for either something like 'fiction' or 'non-fiction' or 'easy' and ask for materials that have not been signed-out for X many years, usually 5-10. This run provides a list of materials in both English and French. The books I have listed for discard above are only in English as the OPAC did not list the French resources in each section I searched. This is a glitch as I have always had material in both languages come up in searches before; I will need to discuss this with the District Resource Administrator.The run is printed and my highly efficient clerk pulls the books while I am teaching. We do this, rather than examining the books together because I only have her for the mornings and I have all the mornings scheduled with book exchanges and two 45-minute periods of teaching in the computer lab providing us with no time to weed together. This procedure would not work if I had a clerk with less training and experience in the library and with policies from the District Resource Centre. I then go over the books following our District policy which is MUSTY.

Once I have gone through the books we check them out to 'discards' and blacken out the barcodes. An email is then sent to the staff to advise them that we have discarded books available to them for their classrooms. The discards are available to staff for one week. I have found if I do not set a time limit on this no one will come and I will have the discards cluttering up the library for weeks. We also advise that should they find any materials in the discards that they believe should not be discarded we will re-examine that item. During the weeding we did in April, we had one book re-instated as it was being used in the Adrienne Gear Reading Power program that our school uses. I also removed a number of books that were part of a series where other parts of the series were still being used. This is opposite to what Bishop suggests://"Teachers can be encouraged to bring to your attention materials that are no longer useful" (125).// We pull the books, but we still ask for teacher input with the same rationale as Bishop is presenting. I find that if her procedures were used I would have the 'hoarding' mode kick in and many of Bishop's excuses and reasons for avoiding weeding show up in the teachers!

Once the staff have chosen the materials they want, we open the discards up to the students. We put the books out on the library tables and have the students come in during recesses and take whatever books they want. We have books only for primary students and for intermediate students and then for whoever would like them. We do not give teaching materials or A/V materials to students. Any remaining materials are recycled according to our District Resource policy and are not put into public trash bins or sent to public recycling businesses.

The most difficult part of the weeding process is the reaction of the staff and sending discarded materials to third world countries. Discarding professional materials causes the most stress to staff as they find units/resources that they have used and loved in the past in the discards and they have a difficult time letting them go. I find this to be very typical of teachers in general. I always ask when they used the unit last with a raised eyebrow and get a great of 'but, but...'and then ask if, in best practice, we should be used teaching resources that are up to twenty years out-of-date. This usually helps, if not, I tell them they are most welcome to take the material for themselves. Funny thing is that almost never happens! This year I had two staff members complain we were removing books that would have to be replaced. They were concerned about books that were duplicates and so did not follow any of the obvious MUSTY criteria. We repeated told staff that there were a number of duplicate items being removed as we were running out of shelf space.

Another difficult part of the weeding process is the entire idea of sending our discarded materials to third world countries. We, as teachers, generally want to help everyone, have caring and generous hearts. But sending materials that we have discarded as obsolete, antiquated or worn to someone else when we would not use such items for our own children's learning is not helpful. Raising funds to send these items overseas is a major undertaking. I would suggest that sending that money overseas to support local authors and publishing companies would be much more helpful. Having students reading books that are culturally relevant and meaningful is much more helpful. One thing that has remained with me from my LIBE courses is when one of the instructors, who worked overseas, stated that in many cases the books are used as fire starter as the people the books were sent to have no use for them other than that! I realize, though, that not everyone has the same belief on this matter as I do.

What made this project easy was having completed the collection analysis before hand and the readings. The collection analysis made several points very clear. First, in the human body section, we had a rounded collection in both languages. Teachers, both English and French Immersion were happy with the materials and felt that the curriculum was well supported. But this was not the the case for simple machines. The French Immersion teachers were very frustrated both with the lack of materials in the physical library collection and the teaching unit they had available to work with. There were only two French books on simple machines in our library! This will be rectified.

The readings reinforced how and why I weed the library, which was especially helpful and reassuring due to the complaints I received over this year's weeding. I posted a page from Bishop's book, __The Collection Program in Schools__ (4th ed) pg 2 - Physical Entity and Accessibility on the wall in my office. In our District's shift towards a Learning Commons I found Bishop's ideas very pertinent:

//"With access to information through resource sharing and electronic means, media centers are moving away from a philosophy of ownership to one of accessibility. The immediate physical collection provides only a starting point for students as they begin to search for information. Through online catalogues students can learn about information sources in other schools, public libraries, community college libraries, or other sites..."//(pg 2).

I believe that the above quote sums up the management of the library collection in a Learning Commons and one to which our library and our District Resource Centre are aiming for [of] "...moving away from a philosophy of ownership to one of accessibility."

I feel our collection maintenance, including weeding, has a full connection between theory and practice. We have a District weeding policy that follows the concepts in Bishop's book such as the questions one should ask:
 * Is the same information already in the collection, but in a different format? //(Is it in our database?)//
 * Will an alternative format make the information accessible to more people? //(Why keep our 2007 print World Book when the 2012 is online?)//
 * Is the same of a similar item quickly accessible through a resource sharing network or the Internet? //(We share materials between libraries, especially the three French Immersion elementary schools. We also are beginning to create a wiki for our students/staff to locate information - ie: Mesopotamia and moral values sites)//
 * Does this item uniquely fill a particular need? //(Simple machines and human body sections - among others - contains books in various reading levels as well as audio-visual materials. There are also Internet sites that were found to be useful as well). (pg 2).//

I also involve //"...the expertise of faculty from various field or grade levels..."(121)// when I weed. Our District Resource Centre Administrator insists on "...//continuous, intermittent, or periodical weeding (121)//. Our weeding and inventory are scheduled to //"...avoid disrupting services to students and teachers" (121).// We attempt to do our utmost to provide the best service, following best practices, to our students, staff and parents.

**Bibliography**
Bishop, K. (2007). __ The collection program in schools:Concepts, practices, and information sources __. 4th ed. Libraries Unlimited: Westport.