Library weeding gets a bad reputation, thanks in part to weeding horror stories. In 2013, Highland Park (Mich.) High School was accused of throwing out a large collection of history materials, ...

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Ruth Ketchum often uses gardening gloves when she weeds books at Chicago’s Sulzer Regional Library. “The books dry out your skin,” she explained. One afternoon last week, she went through several ...

URBANA — The Urbana Free Library board president said on Thursday that much of the weeding that occurred in the adult nonfiction section was defensible, and it actually resumed after library patrons ...

ALBANY — Local activists fighting the Alameda County Library’s book weeding policy were unhappy with the results of a pair of meetings May 19-20. The Albany Library Board forwarded the city’s annual ...

A group of retired librarians and community members gathered at Berkeley Public Library’s central branch Wednesday evening preceding a Board of Library Trustees meeting to protest increased ...

The head of the Berkeley Public Library has resigned in the midst of a controversy over the weeding of books from the city’s Central Library. Jeff Scott, who took the job as director of library ...

In a deaccession, or “weeding” process, the Berkeley Public Library’s Central Library is recycling books that are in poor condition, are out of date or have a low circulation record. Books that have ...

The new acting interim director of the Berkeley Public Library pledged Wednesday night to reinstate some of the input and authority that librarians and staff lost under former Director Jeff Scott — ...

A book one Manheim Township School District parent asked to be removed from the high school library was removed because it had only been checked out twice in 14 years, not for content the parent ...

Peel District School Board says it's now focused on replenishing its libraries Evelyn Reford, a teacher librarian at Green Glade Senior Public School, says she weeded just over 2,000 of the 6,500 ...