Weeding Ebooks at an Academic Library

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

12-20-2021

Abstract

Libraries can improve their ebook collections by weeding them to remove outdated and irrelevant content. This paper reports on an ebook weeding project conducted by the Franklin University Library in Columbus, Ohio. It discusses the library’s reasons for weeding its ebooks, how the library weeded its demand driven acquisitions (“DDA”) pool, and the challenges the library encountered weeding ebooks. The library ultimately conducted a more limited weeding of its ebook collection than initially planned. This paper explains the reasons for this limited weeding project, the decisions the library made throughout the project and the method used to conduct the ebook weeding project.

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Administrative Offices, Executives, and Centers

Academic Department

Learning Commons

Publication or Event Title

Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division

Volume

11

Issue

1

First Page

26

Last Page

39

ISSN

1947-0037

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Initially published in the journal Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division.

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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