ADVOCATING FOR WEEDING OUT OF BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
Keywords:
Weeding out, LibraryAbstract
This paper is a case study of library policy for weeding the damaged, old, out of date, unused library collections. The paper act to highlight the barriers and the need of weeding library collections. It discusses the criteria used to weed the collections in the library devised by the Library Advisory Committee. The study is limited to the weeding of library books. The weeding procedure at library not only makes the collections vivacious but also helps in marketing of the Library and its resources. This study will be very fruitful for those library professionals who wish to undertake weeding of their collections to make them energetic and updated.
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