Weeding Workshop!

The Collection Development librarians will be presenting a hands-on Weeding Workshop on Thursday, November 10, at the Johnson Neighborhood Library. It will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will last 2.5 hours.

This workshop is for those with collection management responsibilities who may be new to the system or need a refresher.

Material covered includes:

• Why weeding is important
• Houston Public Library weeding policy
• Tools to weed dated materials
• Tools to decide whether to weed or float materials that are not circulating, including Collection HQ
• How to weed materials in poor condition
• How to process out materials for float or discard
• How to schedule weeding/floating into daily workflow

Thanks to the Johnson NL who will host us! The workshop will include hands-on weeding in the Johnson collection, which is scheduled to be RFID-tagged in the near future.

Please get permission from your manager before registering.  Registration is through the Training Portal on the HPL Intranet; you sign up by going to the calendar.

Note: Youth Staff are encouraged to attend this workshop.  Youth Managers are required to attend.

If you have any questions, contact Collection Development at 3-1469.