<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Basically, two senior staff and the director make the determinations. We have library board, but aren't overseen by another governmental unit.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We remove books that are low-zero on circ stats, those that are outdated (technology books are outdated FAST) due to new info, etc. or irreparably damaged (blood, mold, water/coffee damaged, animal got to it, etc.). We check to see how many other libraries have them too. We discard any in such poor shape that they can't go to the book sale shelves, or to a 'books for the world" type donation. We have a used book sale constantly in our Community Room.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">But-- I understand that several years ago, individuals actively "shopped" our dumpster and complained about the "perfectly good books we were just throwing away" (Guess they didn't see the missing pages, blood or the mold and mildew). So-- once bitten, twice shy-- we exercised additional cautious measures for several years after that. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 5:11 PM Deb Hemmye via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sheesh! We do not have anything like that. Furthermore, we find that people are reluctant to purchase discarded library books even if they are in practically brand new condition. Do you get a lot of sales this way? We do recycle unusable donations and weeded books.<br><br>Good luck!<br><br><div id="m_-645575072506944198781c9d57e-cd0c-43db-b803-e7711d98beb9"><div><em>Deb Hemmye</em> <br>Library Director <br>Huntington Woods Public Library <br>26415 Scotia Road <br>Huntington Woods, MI 48070 <br>248-543-9720, ext. 686 <br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128)">"But without questions, there can be no knowledge." </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128)">From <em>When Women Were Dragons</em>, by Kelly Barnhill</span> <br></div></div><br><hr id="m_-6455750725069441987zwchr"><div><b>From: </b>"Michlib" <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Michlib" <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, January 8, 2024 11:39:01 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Michlib-l] Requirements for disposal of weeded books<br></div><br><div>
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Does anyone else have to jump through these hoops to remove items from their collection? Could any libraries required to do any of the following (or something similar) please email me the specifics of them? I'd be happy to compile the results and share. Thank
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<ol><li>Submit a list of weeded items to a governing body (Council, Board, etc.) for approval prior to disposal.<br>
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<div>I'm trying to find anyone who's process is similar to ours: Items weeded from collection, itemized list sent to City Council monthly to be declared surplus, items placed on bid (like a silent auction), placed for sale, or sent to a company like
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jean Fellows</div><div dir="ltr">(she/hers)<br><div>Programming Coordinator</div><div>Grand Ledge Area District Library</div><div>131 E. Jefferson St.,</div><div>Grand Ledge, MI 48837</div><div>517-627-7014<br></div><div><br></div><div><i style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">The Grand Ledge Area District Library is situated on ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples-- land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. For more information, see the article from Central Michigan University Library:<a href="https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory." target="_blank">https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory.</a></i><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>