Comment on Me at my library job as the only one who will weed books
Tower@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
How long does a book have to go without being checked out to be purged?
Comment on Me at my library job as the only one who will weed books
Tower@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
How long does a book have to go without being checked out to be purged?
capybeby@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Depends on the library and the type of book. Typical time frames are 10 years, 7 years, 5 years, or 2 years. For example I work in an busy urban library in the children’s room and we were running out of space in our fiction novel section so we did a 5 year then a 2 year when the first one didn’t make enough space. Our nonfiction section grows less quickly so we do 7 year weeds.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The library i worked for for a while also had an archive system. If there were fewer than X books in the system for the whole country (not counting most novels) it would never get removed. It was wild spotting books that predated my grandparents just sitting on the public shelf, defended only by a “no checkout” sticker.