Thursday, March 1, 2018

Deselection in your LLC

Weeding, or deselecting materials in your library learning commons is a job that sometimes gets pushed to the back burner. With the myriad of jobs we do as teacher-librarians, it tends to be a job that can wait. That's why some TLs use the CREW method of keeping their collection current.
CREW stands for Continuous Review, Evaluation and Weeding. While CREW was designed for public libraries, it can be adapted by school libraries. In Surrey, we've extended the 10 year old age limit to 15 years and use the MUSTIE criteria. MUSTIE refers to Misleading, Ugly, Superceded, Trivial, Irrelevant, Elsewhere. 
I recently visited Latimer Road Elementary and teacher-librarian, Angela. We tackled the fiction collection and created space on each shelf for displaying books. It gave the wall a fresh look and provided a new space to promote books.

Discards included damaged and old books.

Shelves look much more open and appealing!

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  1. UnknownAugust 10, 2018 at 9:46 PM

    Thanks for posting these tips Lynne! With a tight budget for new materials I have a difficult time getting rid of anything in the library. There always seems to be a reason to keep or attempt to re-purpose something. The pictures reminded me of the importance of the "ugly" in MUSTIE. Taped and re-taped damaged books do not make bookshelves look appealing! I'm wondering if you know what happens to the books we pack into the Surrey School District Recycling boxes. Are they sorted and donated elsewhere or just recycled?

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