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Weeding for Fresh Appeal and Increased Circulation

As we know, weeded shelves not only look better, but also result in increased circulation.

I just completed a second year of weeding of non-fiction shelves. The first year I weeded the most outdated and physically-abused books.

The second year I followed a computer-generated weed list more faithfully, checking also against Baker & Taylor new editions. (The computer-generated list gave me titles that had not circulated in the last 2 to 3 years.) If a book that had not circulated was still in good shape and had current information,

I concluded that it might be a book of cyclic interest and decided to keep it for 1 or 2 more years to see if it would circ after the shelves looked more inviting.At one time the oversize books were along the bottom shelves, hard to browse, and usually not checked out.

You will see in the images that all oversize books have been placed where it is easier to access them.

Past experience proves

that weeding keeps patrons interested in browsing the collection and books moving out the door!