The Central Plains Library System’s Month of Weeding is done for this year. It was successful for all that participated. We had 2 school libraries and 8 public libraries turn in their weeding reports and several more that indicated they would be weeding. Based on what we heard, nearly 2,100 items were taken off the shelves to make room for newer and better resources.
Together, our libraries weeded pretty evenly across all types of materials. Some of the funniest titles came from the nonfiction area:
- Science Experiments You Can Eat, c1972
- America Was Like This (not checked out since 1969)
- Microwave Food Fun, c1987 (for children)
- Customs and Rituals of Alcohol, c1988
- Think Metric! c1972
- Creative Film-Making, c1958
- New Adventures of Alice, c1917
Here are a few quotations:
- The Nancy Drew paperbacks’ pages were yellow and brittle. They needed to go a while ago!
- I hated to weed Jason Reynolds’ All American Boys, but it hadn’t been checked out in over 5 years. ☹
- There weren’t a lot of food safety concerns in 1987!
- I took out 5 shelves of reference books today…so outdated.
- We aren’t finished in the audio section but making a good dent!
- Looks better!
We held a random drawing for a $100 Amazon Gift Card from all the libraries that notified the System Office that they were participating.
…And the Winner is Indianola Public Library. Congratulations, Katie!