Developing and implementing a disapproval plan

In his classic work, Weeding Library Collections, Stanley Slote identifies a number of obstacles to weeding, including the time it takes, public displeasure, emotional or intellectual barriers that librarians face when it comes to removing books from their collections, the conflicting and subjective criteria that librarians often rely upon, and the expense and effort it can take to compile more objective criteria. 1 More than a decade after Slote’s work was last published, Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer point out that many tools and data exist today to make weeding easier, less risky for libraries, and more accurate. 2 They argue for the use of a data-driven, rules-based approach to weeding that removes the subjective factors included in weeding. 3