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Baltimore County Public Schools: Criteria for Sele
Includes a section about weeding media materials.
Beloit Public Library Wisconsin Weeding Policy
Provides a copy of this libraries weeding policy.
CDT: Weeding
"Discusses the importance of having a weeding policy, the rationale behind weeding, some reasons it is difficult to weed, practical information for use in planning or conducting weeding, and options for the materials you remove." Part of the Collection Development Training for Arizona Public Libraries.
Collection Development Policy Guidelines for Schoo
Includes a section on weeding items in school library collections.
Evergreen State College Archives Mission Statement
Includes a section on the archives de-accession policy.
Materials De-selection Policy
Policy approved by the Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) Public Library Board.
Overbooked: Weeding the Fiction Collection
Highlights of a program held at the American Library Association's 2000 Annual Conference in Chicago. Selected bibiography, excerpts of some policies, annotated links to some web resources, text of a skit about weeding, and the main points from the keynote speaker's talk.
Seven Guidelines for Weeding
Provides seven basic principles for those new to the weeding process.
SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club
The SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club is an effort to help provide Florida's School Library Media Specialists with guidelines and suggestions for weeding their collections a little at a time as well as for adding quality materials.
Weed It!: For an Attractive and Useful Collection
A collection of frequently asked questions (faqs) about weeding: why is it done, what is done with weeded materials. Includes a section "What happened in San Francisco?". Prepared by Karen Klopfer, WMRLS Regional Librarian, Berkshire Subregion.
Weeding the Library Media Center Collections
Provided by the State of Iowa Department of Education. Why, when, and how to weed, with subjective and objective weeding criteria. "This document is offered in response to numerous questions library media specialists have about weeding library media collections. It is addressed especially to elementary and secondary school library media centers and to community college and vocational school library resource centers in Iowa."