Weeding
Today I helped weed part of the computer/technology (003/004/005) section and the Social Science sections, specifically the 320's-328's. We were able to narrow down which areas to weed using the Follett collection analysis program. We then went book by book to look for relevance and ended up weeding all the computer/technology books which were outdated by at lease 15 years. We were also able to weed approximately 1/3 of the 320-328 section because of outdated information. I must admit that while looking for relevance within the texts, I became swept up in reading the books and was amazed by how much and by how little some things have changed. I wonder if everyone has this problem when weeding? I was also shocked by how long ago the last check-outs were on these books (10 or more years since the last check-out) - some of the books had never been checked out and were virtually brand new! The process took us approximately 3 hours to weed through about 200 books. This was just the beginning of the weeding process for this high school MC which has an average collection age of 1986.
I was also able to briefly speak with the history teacher I am collaborating with for the 11th grade historical figure unit. It is apparent that he feels bad to not be able to give me more time. I am beginning to see that many teachers are apprehensive to letting others teach their classes and some teachers have no idea what we, as MS, even really can or are capable of doing! This is when those dispositions of a MS need to kick in!
