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Management + Business Acumen

Professionalism + Leadership at Every Level

Selector School 2.0: Weeding the Collection You Have Built

Monday, July 22, 2024

1:15pm – 2:15pm CDT

Room: Regency Ballroom A (West Tower Gold Level)

Coordinator/Speaker(s)

Jennifer Mart-Rice (she/her/hers)

Associate Director of the Law Library
University of Iowa Law Library
Iowa City, Iowa, United States

Slides (PDF) Handouts

Speaker(s)

Jessica Mundy (she/her/hers)

Head of Collection Management
Maryland Thurgood Marshall State Law Library
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Lauren Seney (she/her/hers)

Associate Director and Head of Resource Access & Discovery
University of Colorado Law Library
Elisabeth Umpleby (she/her/hers)

Associate Director of Collections, Discovery, and Systems
University of Connecticut School of Law
Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Selector School is back in session! At AALL 2023 we brought you strategies and tactics to train your library’s selectors, so they understand how to better select materials, connect with stakeholders, and diversify the collection. Join us this year to take your training in collection development to the next level: learning how to assess and weed your collections.

Collection development and weeding are evolving processes that involve on-the-job education and training. With so few opportunities for librarians to effectively learn how to examine their collections and make an informed “keep or toss” decision, this program seeks to help by providing participants with the tools needed to formulate and implement a sustainable weeding strategy at their own library that is easy to follow and provides ample opportunities for collaboration and mentorship.

Target Audience:

New(er) law librarians, librarians new(er) to collection development and weeding, law library directors, or collection team leads who are looking to implement weeding into their new collection development policy, down size or right size their collections, create space for expansion and growth of the library, and libraries who may be facing budget cuts.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn how to develop a systematic approach to weeding that builds on the skills of librarians, fosters relationships between experienced selectors and those new to collection development and weeding, and ensures retention of a diverse and accessible collection.
Participants will learn project management strategies for weeding and stacks management that are easy-to-follow, create a sustainable model that naturally evolves from year-to-year, and provide ample opportunities for collaboration, both internally and externally.
Participants will learn how to create a policy or system to weed, rightsize, and address their library’s collection, space, budgetary, and retention needs.