Grafton Library Collection Review Project

The following lists of items are under consideration for withdrawal. Faculty are encouraged to review the lists and contact the library with recommendations for retention by the stated deadline.  The books under consideration are currently shelved in the library office on the main floor if you wish to browse them.

Books under consideration for withdrawal

Deadline for Review : April 4, 2011

The following files contain a list of all of the books in our circulating collections; books under consideration for withdrawal will have an "X" in the "WD" column:

• Circulating Materials BF : Psychology
• Circulating Materials HN : Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform.
• Circulating Materials HQ : The family. Marriage. Women.
• Circulating Materials HS-HT : Societies: secret, benevolent, etc. Communities. Classes. Races.
• Circulating Materials HV-HX : Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology. Socialism. Communism. Anarchism.

If you would like to see a file containing a list of only the books under consideration for withdrawal, select these files:

• Circulating Materials BF
• Circulating Materials HN
• Circulating Materials HQ
• Circulating Materials HS-HT
• Circulating Materials HV-HX

Please Contact: Carol Creager (x7310)

Description of Collection Review Project

Grafton Library Collection Policy

Over the course of the 2010-2011 academic year, the librarians at Grafton will be conducting a systematic collection review. Criteria used to determine the suitability of deselecting reference materials from the library collection:

• Significance/Comprehensiveness of the publication.
• Age and currency of the publication.
• Availability of more recent editions.
• Physical condition of the publication.
• Duplication of content in more recent works.
• Material not in electronic format
• Projected frequency of future use.
• Language of publication.
• Listed/not listed in Resources for College Libraries.

Criteria to be used to determine the suitability of deselecting general materials:

• The importance of the work: its inclusion in standard subject and comprehensive bibliographies or rare book lists.
• The appropriateness of the subject matter to the curriculum.
• The quantity and recency of patron use.
• Interlibrary loan use.
• The physical condition of the publication.
• Number of copies in the collection.
• Language of the publication.
• Newer editions in the collection.
• Listed/not listed in Resources for College Libraries.

Those books that are eventually withdrawn will:

1) be sent to our partners at Better World Books. As a quick reminder, BWB will attempt to: sell the items for us and we will receive a percentage of the sale; donate to our selected non-profit, Room to Read; or recycle the books.

2) Those that aren't accepted by Better World Books will be offered to the MBC community.

3) Those that remain will be recycled.