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Friday, May 17 • 2:45pm - 3:45pm
Swedish Death Weeding

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This session will give librarians tips and tricks for weeding their collections, and how to handle to optics of "throwing books away." It will discuss strategies for dealing with book donations from patrons. It will also touch on approaches walking patrons through their disposal of their "really important" books, photographs, and documents.
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Warren Cobb

Information Services Librarian, Beaufort County Library
Years of editing for newspapers, living with a collector of "stuff" ex-wife, and working at a small "grandma's attic" museum have led me to my collections management philosophy: Weed It or Die. I practice this in my daily life, as well as a large branch library in Hilton Head, South... Read More →

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