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The weeding handbook : a shelf-by-shelf guide / Rebecca Vnuk.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780838937174 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xxii, 214 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: Chicago : ALA Editions, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Basics -- Shelf by Shelf: 000, 100, 200 -- Shelf by Shelf: 300s -- Shelf by Shelf: 400s and 500s -- Shelf by Shelf: 600s -- Shelf by Shelf: 700s -- Shelf by Shelf: 800s and Fiction -- Shelf by Shelf: 900s and Biography -- Other Areas of the Collection -- Special Considerations for Youth Collections -- Weeding Gone Wrong -- Diversity and Inclusion -- The Importance of a Collection Development Plan -- Appendix: Annotated Sample Collection Development Plans -- Suggested Reading. |
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| Genre: | Handbooks and manuals. |
Rebecca Vnuk has a high profile in the library community as a librarian, consultant, workshop presenter, speaker, writer, and blogger. She is currently best known as Editor, Reference and Collection Management, at Booklist, and as the co-creator of the popular blog Shelf Renewal. Her most recent library position was as Adult Services Director at the Glen Ellyn (IL) Public Library. She has been widely recognized for her contributions to the field. In 2008, she was Library Journal's Fiction Reviewer of the Year, and in 2010 she received the Public Library Association's Allie Beth Martin Award for excellence in Readers' Advisory and was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. She is the author of Read On . . . Women's Fiction (2009) and Women's Fiction Authors: A Research Guide (2009), and co-author (with Nanette Donohue) of Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (2013). She has spoken at conferences and presented workshops extensively; her panels are among the most popular at ALA Annual and Public Library Association meetings.
