All of the libraries in the Central Plains Library System really stepped up to the plate and did a lot of digging and weeding through their collections! GREAT JOB!! You should be proud of what was accomplished during this time. Here are just a few of the highlights:
Total items weeded: 16,551 (AMAZING!!)
171 VHS Tapes
23 Cassette Tapes
844 magazines
1 old equipment
It’s a process and it is different for each and every one of the libraries in our system. Here are some comments we received from participants in this project:
One of our para professionals went to school here when she was younger and found quite a few books that she had checked out. The sign out card still had her name on it from years ago. Her kids go here now, so I think it was funny how both could have checked out the same books.
I weeded some old picture books with graphics from the ‘70s. The cartoon pictures in these books give me the creeps! I’m not sure how kids thought they were entertaining….
The most interesting find was a really, really disgusting molded book. It hadn’t been checked out in 5 years but apparently was returned wet. I ended up deleting the 2 books on either side of it as well. So gross!
The worst was a book we had since 2012 and it was never checked out. I was amazed at how many prize winning books we had that were never checked out here.
We found horrible books on puberty talks that we’ve updated because people were still using them despite the fact that they depicted puberty as scary, monstrous or inaccurately cartoonish.
Since we had so much success….why don’t we give away a couple prizes! We drew for the two Kindle Fires. And the winners are…..
Butler Memorial Library (Cambridge) — Maria Downer
Litchfield Public Schools – Jeralynn Moser