Michael Sawyer takes pride in weeding books. In fact, he estimates that over the past 30 years he has overseen the removal of more than 500,000 items across eight library systems. As you can imagine, ...

This early separation agreement comes after last month’s special board meeting when dozens of Urbana residents spoke to the board about their disagreement with the rapid and extensive book weeding ...

URBANA — A shipment of books removed from the shelves of the Urbana Free Library only a week earlier is making its way back to the library. Headed back to Urbana will be art books, gardening books, ...

BERKELEY — You can learn to make a zombie, find facts about Nauru or study jazz history at Berkeley’s well-loved libraries, but when it comes to getting information about the library itself you may ...

Ruth Ketchum often uses gardening gloves when she weeds books at Chicago’s Sulzer Regional Library. “The books dry out your skin,” she explained. One afternoon last week, she went through several ...

A school board west of Toronto says it is focused on replenishing resources in its libraries while reviewing training after its so-called “weeding process” was criticized. Last week, Education ...

Last week, the Urbana Free Library decided to weed out vast amounts of their nonfiction collections based solely on date; prints published prior to 2003 were flagged for removal. Weeding is not an ...

URBANA — The Urbana Free Library board president said on Thursday that much of the weeding that occurred in the adult nonfiction section was defensible, and it actually resumed after library patrons ...

There is an art to every profession, and librarianship is no exception. Part of a library’s responsibility to its community is to cultivate a book collection. Berkeley is an especially diverse, ...

If books are like gardens of knowledge, then every once in a while it probably does some good to pull the weeds out of that garden. That’s what the staff at Fort Morgan Public Library is working on ...

BERKELEY — You can learn to make a zombie, find facts about Nauru or study jazz history at Berkeley”s well-loved libraries, but when it comes to getting information about the library itself you may ...