Throughout this subject, my understanding of school library collections has grown in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Coming into this course, I thought of library collection management as mostly about keeping the shelves stocked and meeting immediate curriculum needs. Now, I
When I first encountered the concept of “weeding” a library collection, I must admit, I felt hesitant. Removing books from the library seemed counterintuitive, I always thought to myself shouldn’t we be adding resources rather than taking them away? My
After 10 years as a librarian, I thought I had a solid understanding of my role. My approach to book selection has always been simple: choose books I thought students would enjoy and add titles that students requested. I believed
