Language of Love* : Weeding in the Secret Garden, part ii

Some highlights of my time weeding our foreign language collection:

• Samuel Beckett in French
• Tom Sawyer, Old Man and the Sea, , and Dashiell Hammett in Italian
• LOTS of extra work to put titles back in the system--and they'll probably be weeded when no one checks them out for another year.
• French Collection--discarded 47% of titles
• German Collection--discarded 43% of titles
• Italian Collection--well over 50% so far
• longest period between last checkout and today--37 years, 5 months (January 1980)
• many items with 20+ years since last checkout

No, an item's lack of circulation isn't the only criterion for weeding. 

Onward...

*--Dan Fogelberg, Windows and Walls, 1984.