it's better to get rid of outdated stuff that would confuse or mislead undergraduates
Yep [nods]. I weed our education/teaching books on much the same basis; classic authors like Piaget and Vygotsky will never get weeded, and I will keep heavily-borrowed older titles particularly if they're on reading lists; but our students will always grab the book/edition that is there, for preference, over the more up-to-date edition that's due back in a few days and which they would have to reserve. Given how much change there has been in education policy/National Curriculum guidelines etc in the UK in the last 10-20 years, keeping older books on some topics would be downright misleading. Fortunately, we have closed stacks where I can relegate things if I really think we should hang on to them for their historical/potential research value...
(Mmmm, I love weeding. Really cathartic. Fortunately have never worked in a really humanities-based research area where everything, no matter how outdated, might have value!)
*nods* Yeah; my previous job was at a uni research library, and they keep everything, down to and including multiple copies of science textbooks from the 1930s. Which is silly, frankly; one copy, maybe, but more than one is a waste of space.
Even works on history and literature get outdated, but it's much slower. Thank goodness.
I should. I wish I could! But there's this little problem of lack of vacation time, what with new job and all. Phooey. Maybe next year; my mom and sister are scheming about a family vacation in Italy. We'll have to think about it.
Not to go to the UK this year. By next year I would hope I'd have enough time saved up to go to Italy, if we decide we're going to do that. SO is kind of meh about the idea, so far anyhow.
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Yep [nods]. I weed our education/teaching books on much the same basis; classic authors like Piaget and Vygotsky will never get weeded, and I will keep heavily-borrowed older titles particularly if they're on reading lists; but our students will always grab the book/edition that is there, for preference, over the more up-to-date edition that's due back in a few days and which they would have to reserve. Given how much change there has been in education policy/National Curriculum guidelines etc in the UK in the last 10-20 years, keeping older books on some topics would be downright misleading. Fortunately, we have closed stacks where I can relegate things if I really think we should hang on to them for their historical/potential research value...
(Mmmm, I love weeding. Really cathartic. Fortunately have never worked in a really humanities-based research area where everything, no matter how outdated, might have value!)
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Even works on history and literature get outdated, but it's much slower. Thank goodness.
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