Managing the reference collection: The practice of pruning

Weeding and Maintenance of Reference Collections

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 159-173

  Harloe, Bart ^a,b   Barber, Helen M ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Claremont College   (United States)

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EID: 85065278860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203057711     Document Type: Chapter

References (7)

1. Gail Schlachter, “Obsolescence, Weeding, and Bibliographic Love Canals,�? RQ 28 (Fall 1988) p. 8.
2. Paul H. Mosher, “Managing Library Collections: The Process of Review and Pruning,�? in Collection Development in Libraries: A Treatise, ed. Robert D. Stueart and George B. Miller, Jr., Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980, Part A, pp. 170-71.
3. Kathleen Coleman and Pauline Dickinson, “Drafting a Reference Collection Policy,�? College & Research Libraries 38 (May 1977) p. 232.
4. Kathleen Coleman and Pauline Dickinson, p. 232.
5. David A. Tyckoson “Creative Journal Cancellation Ideas,�? “Putting the Reference Collection on a Diet: Managing a Reference Collection Serials Cancellation Project,�? Poster Session paper presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, June 27-July 2, 1987 [pp. 3-4]. We urge Mr. Tyckoson to publish the ideas set forth in this excellent poster session paper so that other reference librarians may take advantage of them.
6. Kristine Salomon, “The Impact of CD-ROM on Reference Departments,�? RQ 28 (Winter 1988) p. 204.
7. Ann Bristow, “Reference Sources on CD-ROM at Indiana University,�? Electronic Library 6 (1988) p. 28.