{"id":3764,"date":"2013-06-14T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T02:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:06:16","slug":"weeding-or-mowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/weeding-or-mowing.html","title":{"rendered":"Weeding&#8230; or Mowing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Urbana Free Library in Urbana, Illinois, just conducted a <a title=\"Urbana Free Library FAQ\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanafreelibrary.org\/article\/2013\/06\/14\/changes-urbana-free-librarythe-faq\">major weeding project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who work in libraries understand that proper weeding is critical.\u00a0 A collection that isn&#8217;t weeded well becomes clogged up with irrelevant and unnecessary volumes, leaving users reduced options and far too many books to wade through to find those options.\u00a0 It can be a heart-wrenching experience to weed, but a well-weeded collection is efficient, has breadth and depth, and is easier on our users.<\/p>\n<p>However, the weeding at the Urbana Free Library was anything but good:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to Smile Politely's blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smilepolitely.com\/culture\/do_you_ever_read_any_of_the_books_you_weed\/\"><strong>&#8220;Do you ever <em>read<\/em> any of the books you [weed]?&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update 2013-07-10:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-gazette.com\/news\/local\/2013-07-09\/updated-urbana-library-seek-early-separation-director.html\"><strong>Urbana Library to seek early separation with Director.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urbana Free Library in Urbana, Illinois, just conducted a major weeding project. Those of us who work in libraries understand that proper weeding is critical.\u00a0 A collection that isn&#8217;t weeded well becomes clogged up with irrelevant and unnecessary volumes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/weeding-or-mowing.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2923,2929,2943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-classification","category-ethics","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-YI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}