Weeding Webinar: Collection Development's Evil Twin January 16th, 2015
| Date & Time: | Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm EST |
| Instructor: | Marc Wildman, Assistant Director for Patron Services DeWitt Community Library |
| Location/Tech Support: | Online. For viewing at your own location will need – • An Internet-connected computer • Computer speakers or phone for sound A microphone or headset with microphone is recommended, but not required. Students without a microphone contribute to conversations through text chat. |
| Audience: | Staff in public, academic, and special libraries, and school library media specialists and staff. |
| Registration: | Fee: $10 SCRLC and NY 3Rs members; $15 non-members Registration Closed. |
This program will cover the basic principles of weeding, including a variety of approaches, both scientific and intuitive. The class will review the common barriers to weeding and practical approaches to successful collection management. Beyond common principles, there are also issues unique to each type of library that will be addressed.
Marc Wildman is the Assistant Director for Patron Services at DeWitt Community Library. He has over 25 years of library experience in serials, cataloging, and collection management. Marc is familiar with weeding from both sides of librarianship as a subject bibliographer and as a supervisor of a Technical Services department, where deselected books are processed and withdrawn from the online catalog. He also has experience in Academic, Public, and Special libraries and the issues that concern weeding at these similar, yet different, institutions.
This session is a $105 value, so the class fee represents a 91% savings.
